The Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage on Monday made global headlines after knocking some of the world's largest sites offline for hours. For users, the impacts ranged from the serious - such as not being able to access vital banking, government or work services - to the not-so-serious, such as fears of losing long built-up streaks on Duolingo.

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If you found it difficult to access sites and services early Monday morning, you are not alone. In fact, the rest of the world was having trouble, too. For a short period of time, a global outage prevented people from accessing a wide variety of sites and services, from Facebook to Fortnite.

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Several significant online platforms faced interruptions on Monday, including Amazon's Cloud Service, AWS, Robinhood, Snapchat, and Perplexity AI, according to Downdetector.

The incident, which some analysts are calling Amazon’s worst outage since 2021, reminded the world of the perils of depending on a handful of cloud companies to deliver crucial computing and internet services.

Roblox (NYSE:RBLX) was in the spotlight after a major Amazon Web Services outage caused downtime for its global user base. The outage affected gameplay for millions and highlighted risks tied to cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services was offline early Monday morning, the outage affecting multiple websites and apps on Monday.