Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said most services were back up after an issue caused outages at many websites.

Amazon's Connecticut footprint already includes six fulfillment and sorting centers, 10 delivery stations, 13 Whole Foods Market locations, and seven on-site solar energy locations. Other facilities are located in Cromwell, North Haven, Wallingford, and Windsor.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

Amazon plans to lay off corporate employees. According to the memo, the layoffs impact 14,000 corporate employees. CNBC and Reuters, citing anonymous sources, reported that the company could cut up to 30,000 jobs. Reuters reported BusinessInsider.com

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

An Amazon Web Services (AWS) logo pictured on Oct. 14, 2025. Reporter Major global outage impacts popular apps and websites, looking at the safety of the NFL, and more Length: Long Speed: 1.0x Several popular websites and apps were disrupted early Monday morning after Amazon’s computing services unit Amazon Web Services (AWS) was hit by a major global outage.

(Gray News/AP) – A massive Amazon Web Services outage caused major disruptions around the world Monday. While the outages lasted several hours, Amazon has said most systems should be back online and operating normally. The company reported that 64 internal AWS services were affected by the issue.

(FOX 2/AP) - Websites around the world are dealing with issues Monday morning as a result of an Amazon Web Services outage. Just a few websites facing user reports of issues on DownDetector include Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, and more. The Associated Press also reported that it is dealing with website problems.