An hours-long crash of Amazon Web Services sparked a wave of tongue-in-cheek, apocalyptic memes Monday as social media users coped with the disruption of major sites and apps around the world. Posts on X,

Amazon's cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday, causing connectivity issues for many companies around the world and disrupting services for several popular websites and apps including...

This is not the first time issues with Amazon’s key services have caused widespread disruptions.