A widespread outage affecting numerous websites both in Finland and internationally began Thursday morning around 11:00 AM. The cause of the disruptions has been identified as issues with Amazon’s AWS cloud services. Reports of website failures began surfacing shortly after, as tracked by outage monitoring site Downdetector. Many online services experienced functionality problems as a result of the AWS issues. The outage impacts a wide range of platforms relying on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. Further details regarding the extent and resolution of the problem are currently under investigation. This incident highlights the dependence of many digital services on a small number of major cloud providers.