New Delhi, Oct. 21 -- A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted access to several major digital platforms, including financial apps, AI tools, and popular entertainment services. The incident, which lasted for nearly 15 hours, showcased the scale of global reliance on Amazon's cloud infrastructure, a system that powers everything from banking apps to streaming platforms.

According to Amazon's service health dashboard, the problem was traced to a fault in a regional gateway on the US East Coast. Engineers said they were working on "multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery" as they investigated the root cause.

Reports of problems began appearing shortly after 7:30 AM London time, with outage tracker Downde...