The company said it identified the root cause of the issues and was working on mitigating the problem.

Amazon Web Services, a major player in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday.

Connectivity issues for many companies around the world disrupted as outage hits Amazon's cloud unit.

Social media, demand TV, financial firms and governments around the world were among those hit by a major outage at cloud services provider Amazon Web Services.

The company said it identified the root cause of the issues and was working on mitigating the problem.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.