Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

Amazon posted higher fiscal third quarter profit and sales compared with a year ago, fueled by accelerating growth in its cloud computing business and strong spending by its customers looking for low prices at a time when inflation is resurging.

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and everyday online tools, went offline because of a problem with one its core database products.

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 Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.

An Amazon Web Services outage is causing disruptions globally. The service provides remote computing services apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.

An Amazon Web Services outage is causing disruptions globally. The service provides remote computing services apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.

Services disrupted included major retailers, airlines, social-media apps, financial-services companies and more. Amazon said its systems were recovering.

Microsoft Azure's outages started to spike after 10:44 a.m. Wednesday while Amazon Web Services outages increased soon after, per Downdetector. There were many more Microsoft Azure outages reported, with 19,834 at 11:05 a.m., compared to 5,507 AWS reports at 11:36 a.m.

The notification with Amazon’s entire list is online at the state’s WARN site. Separately, a regional delivery service partner with Amazon has filed a layoff notice with the state Department of Employment Security, eliminating more than 100 jobs.

Verizon Business (VZ) struck a deal with Amazon Web Services (AMZN) on Monday under which the U.S. telecom will build new fiber pathways connecting AWS data center locations. Verizon will build high-capacity,