Amazon Web Services outage takes down major websites

Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites.

AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple services” and said it was “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery,” in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT.

Shortly afterward, AWS said it was seeing “significant signs of recovery.”

“Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information,” it added.

The website Downdetector said that user reports indicated problems at sites including Amazon, Disney+, Lyft, the McDonald’s app, the New York Times, Reddit, Ring, Robinhood, Snapchat, T-Mobile, United Airlines, Venmo and Verizon.

Some United and Delta customers reported on social media that they couldn’t find their reservations online, check in or drop bags.

Other social media users cited disruption across cloud-based games, including Roblox and Fortnite, while crypto exchange Coinbase said that many users were unable to access the service due to the outage.

Graphic design tool Canva said it was “experiencing significantly increased error rates which are impacting functionality on Canva. There is a major issue with our underlying cloud provider.”

This is a developing news story and will be updated shortly.

— CNBC’s Leslie Josephs contributed to this report.