Amazon Web Services says it has fixed the underlying cause - but many of the world's biggest websites will be reeling from the outage which put them out of action for much of the day.

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including...

Even if short-lived, outages that impact online banking and other financial services can be among the most stressful, particularly if a consumer is waiting on a paycheck, trying to pay rent, checking ...