Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Noah Berger | Getty Images
This is CNBC's Morning Squawk newsletter. Subscribe here to receive future editions in your inbox. Here are five key things investors need to know to start the trading day:
1. WTF, AWS
What began as an early morning outage report for Amazon Web Services snowballed into a daylong saga that limited access to popular websites used for work, school, entertainment and travel. Monday evening, the company said all its services returned to normal operations. Here's a recap: Downdetector showed users had problems accessing a variety of sites, ranging from Snapchat Lyft The New York Times reported problems with finding airline reservations and checking in online, while the British government said it was in communication with AWS over impacted services.
reported problems with finding airline reservations and checking in online, while the British government said it was in communication with AWS over impacted services. AWS is the leading vendor of cloud infrastructure technology, with millions of companies and groups using its services tied to servers and storage.
Cybersecurity executive Rob Jardin told CNBC that the outage didn't seem to be caused by a cyber attack and was likely due to a technical issue with one of Amazon's key data centers.
It's not the only outage in recent memory: AWS faced a disruption in 2023, and Microsoft CrowdStrike
AWS said it will share a "post-event summary" following Monday's outage.
2. Green Apple
Consumers experience the iPhone 17 in an Apple store in Shanghai, China on October 13, 2025. Cfoto | Future Publishing | Getty Images
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