Major apps are crashing and websites are slow - and it's all connected to Amazon Web Services' massive outage. Here's what's behind the internet's bad day.

A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

Amazon Web Services experienced experiencing a huge global outage. While a fix was attempted, it seemed to have knocked out other services. Here's a live report on what's happened, why it's happened and when a fix is occurred.

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.

Content management systems such as WordPress and Quintype also affected, hampering major news websites and blogs