The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

By Greg Bensinger, Shubham Kalia and Deborah Mary Sophia SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon.com said on Monday that a cloud computing unit at its data center in northern Virginia had largely contained fallout from a widespread internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites,

Amazon Web Services is recovering after an outage that disrupted Facebook, Snapchat, Fortnite, Coinbase and other major platforms, once again illustrating the internet’s heavy reliance on the cloud giant and a lack of redundancy in online services.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage early Monday morning before most services were restored, the company said. AWS, which provides cloud-computing services to companies around the