Amazon Web Services has faced a major outage, affecting users worldwide trying to connect to various online services. On Monday, AWS began recovering from the disruption but continued to address significant errors and connectivity issues. The problem was traced to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-East-1 region, a critical cloud hub. This outage impacted major services like Snapchat, Roblox, and Fortnite. Experts have long warned about the risks of relying on a few big tech companies for key internet operations. Although such issues are usually resolved quickly, they highlight vulnerabilities in centralized cloud services.

A problem at Amazon’s cloud computing service disrupted internet use around the world. The outage on Monday took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem, although problems lingered for some users. AWS provides behind-the-scenes cloud computing infrastructure to some of the world’s biggest organizations. Its customers include government departments, universities and businesses. Amazon pinned the outage on issues related to its domain name system.