User complaints surged on tracking site DownDetector just after noon Eastern time, with most reports concentrated in the company’s US-EAST-1 region.

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Hours later, Amazon finally announced that it had resolved the issue behind the major outage, which it said occurred at the heart of its cloud computing operations in North Virginia. In an update on its status page, AWS said the “underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now”.

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for

Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.

The disruption is reported to be linked to Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud network that hosts and powers numerous apps and websites, with Amazon confirming that "multiple AWS services" were experiencing "increased error rates" and delays on its 'Service health' webpage.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald's app.

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.