Companies pay other companies to do their remote computing.

That's the cloud.

Overnight part of that cloud burst.

I'm David Brancaccio in Los Angeles.

There's been a major outage of the Amazon system that does computing for other companies,

cutting off some banks, social media sites, video games, and apps from the Lyft Car Service to McDonald's,

Marketplaces Mitchell Hartman has the latest.

Amazon Web Services is a major provider of cloud computing services, from servers to storage,

to many of the biggest companies in the world.

Starting in the early hours of Monday morning, the website Down Detector started reporting a spike in outages related to Amazon Web Services.

The list of websites and mobile apps that have reportedly been impacted includes social media sites, Facebook, Snapchat, and Reddit, cloud-based gaming sites, Roblox, and Fortnite.

Commercial services, including Lyft, McDonald's, T-Mobile, Verizon, and Amazon itself,

financial services such as Venmo and some airlines.

Stock trading platform Robin Hood was impacted, and Crypto Exchange Coinbase reported

that many users were unable to access its service.

Sites in the UK, including Lloyd's and the country's tax authority, were also down this morning.

Amazon said it was investigating problems with its data centers on the U.S. East Coast, centered in northern Virginia.

It reported after 5 a.m. Eastern Time that it was seeing

significant signs of recovery across its network. I'm Mitchell Hartman for Marketplace.

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