Millions of website disruptions were reported on Monday after Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage that triggered connectivity issues for thousands of websites and services across the globe.

According to NBC News, 6.5 million connectivity reports were filed on Downdetector’s website on Monday and over 1,000 websites and services were affected as a result of the Amazon Web Services outage on Monday. The outlet noted that Coinbase, Snapchat, Fortnite, United Airlines, T-Mobile, and McDonald’s were some of the companies impacted by the Amazon outage. Fox Business reported that Canva, a graphic design platform, was also impacted by the outage.

Amazon Web Services’ status page first reported an “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” at 3:11 a.m. on Monday.  Reuters reported that over six hours after the first disruptions were reported, some of the cloud service provider’s applications started to come back online by 10:00 a.m.

In an update at 11:43 a.m., Amazon Web Services announced, “We have narrowed down the source of the network connectivity issues that impacted AWS Services. The root cause is an underlying internal subsystem responsible for monitoring the health of our network load balancers. We are throttling requests for new EC2 instance launches to aid recovery and actively working on mitigations.”

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According to Fox Business, the Amazon Web Services outage marks the first major disruption to internet services since the CrowdStrike malfunction that impacted the technology systems used by airports, hospitals, and banks across the globe in July of 2024.

In a statement obtained by CNBC, Rob Jardin, chief digital officer of NymVPN, a cybersecurity company, said, “There’s no sign that this AWS outage was caused by a cyberattack – it looks like a technical fault affecting one of Amazon’s main data centres.”

Jardin added, “These issues can happen when systems become overloaded or a key part of the network goes down, and because so many websites and apps rely on AWS, the impact spreads quickly.”

Mike Chapple, an information technology professor at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, warned that Monday’s internet outage caused by Amazon Web Services is a reminder of “how dependent the world is on a handful of major cloud service providers: Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.” Chapple added, “When a major cloud provider sneezes, the Internet catches a cold.”