Amazon Web Services says its massive outage has been resolved, but the ripple effects are still raising alarms across the digital economy. The failure in the cloud-computing system disrupted internet access worldwide on Monday, briefly taking down social media, gaming, streaming, payment and government platforms.

For about 15 hours, more than 11 million user reports flooded outage trackers, according to outage tracker site DownDetector. Over 2,500 companies were affected, including major names like Snapchat, United Airlines, Starbucks and McDonalds, along with the U.S Medicare portal and the U.K.s tax authority. Even healthcare and education platforms were impacted.

While Amazon declared systems had returned to normal operations by Monday evening, given that the system holds over one-thi

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