Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud services for companies, said most services were back up after an issue caused outages at many websites.

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.`

Amazon Web Services' cloud services global outage disrupted service for companies and individual users on Monday. A half day later covereaged mainly recovered.

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 experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline.

Amazon reported third-quarter earnings that exceeded expectations, which prompted a 13% rise in its share value during after-hours trading on Thursday.

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

Amazon continues to work to dominate the world of new-tech advertising. The company’s Amazon Web Services will launch a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers called AWS RTB Fabric, with a goal of helping marketers and media outlets buy and sell digital commercial inventory through split-second auctions.