Some of the world's biggest apps and websites, such as Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, and Canva, were hit by a major internet outage on Monday morning. The issues began at around 9 a.m. CET,

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

Amazon is the leading provider of cloud infrastructure and platform services, constituting over 41 per cent of the market, according to market research group Gartner.