There was a sharp spike in users of Amazon Web Services (AWS) reporting issues early on Monday morning, according to Downdetector, leading to outages and widespread disruption across many major websites, apps, and platforms that use AWS. The broad outage hit millions of people worldwide, causing problems for consumers and businesses alike as people found themselves unable to use social media sites, gaming platforms, payment services, financial trading apps, commercial software, and more—disrupting global industries worth hundreds of billions of dollars...