Amazon Web Services , a cloud computing service run by Amazon, said its services are back to operating as usual after an outage caused widespread issues across the internet on Oct. 20.

AWS said the outage, which began around 3 a.m. ET on Oct. 20, was rooted in a series of issues in its US-EAST-1 Region , a cluster of data centers based in Northern Virginia .

AWS said it fixed the initial problem by 6 a.m. ET. However, a ripple effect of other issues caused service disruptions throughout the day. All services returned to normal by 6 p.m. ET, AWS said.

According to Downdetector , an outage-tracking website, large platforms including Amazon, Snapchat, Ring, Fortnite and more faced issues during the outage. More than three million users in the United States reported problems,

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