Amazon's large cloud-computing service, named Amazon Web Services, suffered a major outage which caused widespread panic all over the Internet. The major online retailer's web services for cloud computing is by far the world's biggest supplier of Internet-based computing services.

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According to The Denver Post, Amazon Web Services suffered an undefined breakdown of its cloud-computing infrastructure in its eastern US region. The problem started around midday on Tuesday, Feb. 28.

The outcome of the outage was widespread performance problems for thousands of websites and applications across the Internet. Some sites even went down entirely because of the outage.

Aside from some sites being unable to function completely, other encountered issues such as having difficulty loading any stored data from Amazon's "simple storage service," or otherwise known as S3, as well as file sharing and web feeds found to malfunction.

The damage report showed particular risks to companies that are heavily reliant on big businesses for cloud computing. Amazon's Web Services are considerably larger than those of its closest rivals Google's Cloud Platform, IBM, and Microsoft Azure.

Issues with the cloud computing service started when one S3 region found in Virginia began experiencing what the major online retailer described as "increased error rates."  

"We are working hard at repairing S3, believe we understand the root cause, and are working on implementing what we believe will remediate the issue," Amazon said in a statement.

Looking at the status update of Amazon Web Services since the errors started appearing, it reports that as of 11:35 a.m. PST, the problems were resolved. The company is reportedly hard at work trying to understand the main cause of the major outage, as well as searching for solutions to remedy the issue.