04:53 AM EDT, 10/20/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Amazon ( AMZN ) Web Services appears to have suffered a major internet outage Monday, causing widespread disruption to dozens of websites, online games and apps that the cloud service hosts, news outlets and monitoring websites reported.

The problems began Monday morning and appear to have impacted websites and apps linked to Amazon ( AMZN ) , Snapchat (SNAP), Vodafone ( VOD ) , and others, news outlets and tracking websites said.

Amazon Web Services status page confirmed "significant error rates" in the US eastern region. "Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause. We will continue to provide updates as we have more information to share."

According to Downdetector, an online outage tracking website, "User reports indicate issues at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the US-East-1 region. These problems are impacting multiple services that depend on Amazon Web Services infrastructure."