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Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites.

AWS cited an “operational issue” affecting “multiple services” and said it was “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery,” in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT.

Shortly afterward, AWS said it was seeing “significant signs of recovery.”

“Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information,” it added.