Some of the world's biggest apps and websites, such as Amazon, Google, Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, and Canva, have been hit by a major internet outage.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage on Monday, October 20, causing a ripple effect across nearly every industry.

The root cause of Monday’s outage remains unknown, but a service that converts friendly web names into IP addresses was unable to communicate with thousands of companies’ massive databases hosted by A...