“There will unfortunately be more victims that have to come forward in the coming weeks and months.”

AWS global cloud infrastructure will supplement the social media company’s own computing capacity.

While barely known outside geeky tech circles, its customer list boasts of every branch of the US military and four-fifths of the Fortune 500.

The outage affected most of Google's services. Functionality was restored to "vast majority" of users about one hour later.

The company says its employees can can choose their office location and/or continue to work from home.

Ellison said demand from large clients for infrastructure cloud services outstripped supply in the last quarter, so the company is scurrying to expand data centers.

Its three main products share data center infrastructure, advertising, operations, and more.

The hardware failure at Equinix's NY5 data center in New Jersey is just the latest example of online brokerage outages caused by a sharp increase in small stock orders.