India, Oct. 20 -- A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing giant powering much of the internet, has knocked out hundreds of websites and apps worldwide.

The disruption affected services including Snapchat, Roblox, Duolingo, Zoom, Fortnite, Ring, Venmo, Coinbase, Robinhood, Perplexity AI, and even parts of Amazon's own e-commerce site.

Airlines like Delta and United also reported app glitches, while UK users faced banking delays with Lloyds and government services.

Amazon Web Services issued a statement, saying, "We continue to observe recovery across most of the affected AWS Services. We can confirm global services and features that rely on US-EAST-1 have also recovered. We continue to work towards full res...