A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

Cloud monitoring platform Datadog launched Updog, a web dashboard that shows the live health status of various SaaS APIs.

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.

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In making sense of all the hullabaloo, cybersecurity expert David Kennedy just dropped a curt and pertinent take on the AWS outage.

Snapchat, Fortnite, Starbucks and more websites were down Monday after issue with Amazon Web Services. Here's what to know and when it may be fixed.

A devastating crash of Amazon’s cloud computer systems triggered the world’s biggest ever internet blackout, according to a web monitoring company.