Amazon's cloud services unit AWS, which provides computing power, data storage and other digital services to numerous companies, governments and individuals, was hit by an outage on Monday, affecting several popular websites and apps.
The internet services monitoring platform Downdetector said Amazon's own shopping website, PrimeVideo and Alexa were all facing issues.
"We can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region," AWS said in an update on its status page.
British broadcaster BBC later cited an update from AWS saying "We have identified a potential root cause for error rates for the DynamoDB APIs in the US-EAST-1 Region."
Among the websites and apps facing problems are the AI startup Perplexity, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase and the trading app Robinhood.
Snapchat, Duolingo and several banks have also reported problems.
