Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

The AWS outage is proof someone is breaking the internet - COMMENT: A three-hour global outage at Amazon Web Services was enough to halt banks, games and government services – exposing the fragile foundations on which our digital world rests,

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

Experts say outages like the one that Amazon experienced this week are almost inevitable given the complexity and scale of cloud technology—but the duration serves as a warning.

The massive Amazon Web Services outage that took down sites from Reddit to Ring to Roblox has been fixed, the company said. The AWS outage rendered huge portions of the internet unavailable for most of the work day for many people on Monday.

An Amazon Web Services outage has caused significant issues for a number of high-profile websites Monday morning, including Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, online broker Robinhood and the McDonald's app.