Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games. About three hours after the outage began,

An unprecedented Amazon Web Services outage that caused nearly 150 major sites and apps – including Snapchat, Venmo and Roblox – to go dark was apparently caused by a common tech glitch. The 15-hour outage appeared to be caused by an “underlying DNS issue,” Amazon Web Services said in a status tracker on its website.

Experts say the incident revealed what can happen when a such a broad spectrum of companies rely on singular cloud provider.

In the shadow of a service outage that affected millions of users, outside of Richland, Washington, internet commerce giant Amazon is building the first of a series of modular nuclear power stations to protect its data services from outages.

The whole thing led to further complications that kept websites offline for a good chunk of the workday. That outage has a lot of people talking about how fragile our systems are.

Copious data centers have sprung up across the United States, nearly doubling in number between 2021 and 2024, with no end in sight to their rapid spread. According to consulting firm McKinsey & Company, companies are projected to spend $1.6 trillion on data center hardware in the US by 2030.

Amazon has posted job listings in St. Louis that advertise multiple data center construction jobs. FOX 2 has learned these jobs are “travel support” roles in search of regional talent to help with construction of data centers elsewhere.