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Now the full recovery of computer applications disrupted by problems with Amazon's cloud unit may still take some time.
AWS Amazon Web Services says it's fixed the underlying issue which had prevented apps from loading properly for about eight hours.
AWS supplies computing power and data storage to companies and governments as well as to individual users.
It's the world's largest cloud provider,
followed by two others, Microsoft's Azure and Alphabet's Google Cloud.
Snapchat,
Reddit and Amazon's own Alexa were among the services which were frustrating users throughout Monday.
Here's our cyber correspondent, Joe Tidy.
It's an absolutely monstrous outage today.
We see this kind of thing probably once a year now.
There is something like this mass outage.
A very, very bad day for Amazon, for AWS.
A lot of people, of course,
know Amazon as the company that sells things through the e-commerce site.
Absolutely enormous website around the world.
But actually, AWS is the big moneymaker for Amazon.
And it's, as you say, a major player in this field.
About a third, I think, of all UK and European companies use AWS for various things,