Payment apps PayPal and Venmo hit with outages on Thursday, Oct. 16. Thousands of users reported issues to Downdetector.com

The outage at Amazon's cloud-based web services knocked out major sites like Hulu and Venmo, plus Amazon.com itself. But most websites are back online now.

AWS outage disrupted major services, including Venmo and Hulu, with a DNS problem in DynamoDB causing widespread issues.

Outage reports peaked for Venmo around 11:50 a.m. EDT with over 8,300 users on Downdetector noting issues, but outage reports dropped sharply in the early afternoon. Users reported issues accessing the app and logging in, according to the site.

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PayPal and Venmo are both experiencing outages as of the morning of October 16, with thousands of reports suggesting a widespread issue.

PayPal and Venmo appeared to go down Thursday afternoon, according to hundreds of user complaints posted on Downdetector.com The problem seemed to spike around 9 a.m. this morning and persisted through the early afternoon.

Amazon says a massive outage of its cloud computing service has been resolved as of Monday evening, after a problem disrupted internet use around the world, taking down a broad range of online services,