# A global outage hit Amazon’s cloud services for several hours on Monday. A subsidiary of the US tech giant said it disrupted many websites and services including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat and Duolingo. Amazon’s maintenance said it took some three hours to largely fix the problem, with some services working to erase the backlog. During the outage, many other online services were affected, including Reddit, and various video streaming platforms such as Hulu and Disney+. In Europe, several major mobile phone operators, some UK banks, Whatsapp and Tinder were also affected.
Amazon’s cloud services hit by hours-long global outage