India, Oct. 20 -- The Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing network that runs a third of websites and applications on the Internet worldwide, saw a massive outage on Monday.

More than a thousand websites and applications were affected by the outage, including Slack, Pinterest, PUBG, Snapchat and many more.

Even Amazon's own ecosystem could not escape the outage, with the company's shopping app and Amazon Prime video, among others, not working.

While Amazon said that a DNS error in their data centres in the United States' Virginia was the underlying cause of the outage, social media is blaming the tech giant's fast adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) for the problems.

Many social media users said that Amazon adopting AI at ...