Amazon.com said on Monday that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused turmoil among thousands of sites globally, including some of the web's most popular apps like Snapchat and Reddit.
Amazon said it had fixed the underlying issue but customers were complaining of lingering difficulties using services such as digital wallet Venmo and video calling site Zoom.
It was the largest internet disruption since last year's CrowdStrike malfunction hobbled technology systems in hospitals, banks and airports, highlighting the vulnerability of the world's interconnected technologies. It was the second time in four years that AWS's northern Virginia cluster, known as U.S.-EAST-1, contributed to a major internet meltdown.
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