India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a massive outage on Monday, causing disruptions around the world and leading to outages across several websites and services, including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Alexa, Snapchat, Canva and Reddit.

AWS, the world's largest cloud provider, said it identified the potential root cause behind the error rates, adding that the issue is now "fully mitigated".

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"We confirm that we have now recovered processing of SQS queues via Lambda Event Source Mappings. We are now working through processing the backlog of SQS messages in Lambda queues" Amazon said in its latest update on the AWS health dashboard.

The disruption, which began around 12 pm (IST), ...