On Monday, there was a disruption in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the users in North Virginia, after reports of an outage of one of Amazon's cloud computing data centers started making rounds during the early afternoon hours, as per the Eastern time.

When reports of the outage first started coming in, it was stated that the disruption in AWS had resulted from a small glitch that essentially affected a few instances of the Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) in North Virginia.

However, it was soon disclosed that the disruption had led to a full-fledged outage of AWS in North Virginia; with the supposed issue having an impact on other parts of AWS. As a result, Amazon's RDS database instances and Elastic Beanstalk went down in North Virginia; and AWS's ElastiCache and CloudWatch also experienced delays as well as connectivity problems.

In addition, the AWS outage also brought down some of the other key services like Foursquare, Reddit, Minecraft, Airbnb, and Heroku; along with affecting GitHub, Pocket, imgur, Coursera, and HipChat, among others.

As the afternoon progressed, the outages started showing improvements gradually; though, by around 5 p. m. ET, "degraded" performance of AWS was reported at one of the company's cloud computing centers in North Virginia.

By Monday night, Amazon said the performance of almost 50 percent of the affected AWS instances had been restored to normal; though the company refrained from making a mention about the time it would take for full restoration of the service.