Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the underlying cause - but many of the world's biggest websites will be reeling from the outage which put them out of action for much of the day.

A massive outage at Amazon Web Services disrupted major websites and apps on Monday, in a show of how one company 's online infrastructure has become essential for many modern businesses to function....

Issues on some apps and websites, including Snapchat SNAP.N, Roblox RBLX.N, streaming site Max and PayPal’s PYPL.O Venmo were showing signs of easing, according to Downdetector.