An outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday took out thousands of websites and mobile phone apps across the globe.

AWS, a cloud computing service that allows companies to rent out the retail giant’s internet infrastructure, suffered a glitch during an update.

The hours-long outage brought government websites, banks, games, streaming services, airlines and crypto platforms offline from about 8am.

Downdetector, which tracks internet outages, confirmed to Metro that more than 3,900 companies were knocked offline, affecting 16,000,000 people.

Amazon engineers say they fixed the issue, and most websites and apps relying on AWS were working normally again.

What caused Amazon’s AWS outage? Every time you send an email, stream a movie or buy something online, you generate data. This data

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