Amazon Web Services experienced a significant outage on Monday morning, taking Snapchat, Roblox and several major banks offline for users in North America and Europe.

Canadians awoke to find several of their favourite services experiencing technical difficulties after Amazon reported a major outage in its cloud computing service.

According to Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages, users of apps such as Snapchat and WhatsApp and major websites, including Amazon, began reporting service disruptions shortly after 3 a...