Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon Web Services said its cloud services have returned to normal after a widespread online outage disrupted thousands of websites worldwide on Monday. The big picture: The biggest internet outage since an error at CrowdStrike caused a global meltdown that grounded flights and halted banking left major platforms including Snapchat,

Amazon says its cloud computing platform, Amazon Web Services, is back up and running normally following a widespread outage on Monday that disrupted businesses, gaming networks, and payment systems across the country.

The massive Amazon Web Services outage that took down sites from Reddit to Ring to Roblox has been fixed, the company said. The AWS outage rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable for most of the work day for many people on Monday.