Amazon’s cloud-computing arm plans to invest an additional $5 billion in South Korea over the next six years to build new artificial-intelligence data centers in the country.

An Amazon Web Services outage impacting Amazon's own services and as well as apps around the world wasn't resolved until Monday evening.`

The cloud-computing division of the internet giant is used by thousands of internet customers, many of whom reported disruptions on Monday.

Amazon's cloud computing service provides back-end support to many companies that operate online. When it has problems, so do they.

Hundreds Of Websites & Apps Were Reported Offline Following Outage At North Virginia Amazon Web Services Data Center

A major Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage early Monday disrupted major platforms including Snapchat, Roblox, Robinhood, and Coinbase.

An Amazon Web Services outage is causing disruptions globally. The service provides remote computing services apps, websites, governments, universities and companies.

AWS has committed to investing a minimum of $5 billion in South Korea by 2031 to establish new artificial intelligence (AI) data centers.

The company said that while the issue has been resolved, some services may experience a backlog of messages while it works to process them over the next few hours.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) said widespread internet outages have been resolved after impacting many users for much of Monday, preventing access to some popular websites.

Thousands of reports are pouring in Wednesday of issues with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform that backs up numerous major companies and parts of the internet. As of Wednesday morning, more than 6,000 outage reports had been filed with the monitoring site Downdetector.