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 Web Services (AWS), the cloud computing platform that powers much of the internet, went down for several hours Monday, making several major websites and apps inoperable.

A problem at Amazon Web Services has broken the internet...dozens of apps and websites stopped working following a huge outage.