Services relied on for remote work were disrupted Tuesday on the US East Coast in an outage linked to a mishap with a Verizon internet cable. Reports of problems using Google, Zoom, Amazon Web Services and other online platforms heavily used by people working or learning remotely during the pandemic spiked at the same time Verizon reported trouble of its own in the same part of the US. "There is a fiber cut in Brooklyn," Verizon said in a tweet midday in New York, adding it had no estimate of when the damage might be fixed. Online platforms large and small typically rely on networks such as those of US telecom firm Verizon to route data to enable access to their services. Verizon's own internet, telephone, and television service Fios which operates over fiber-optic cables and boasts more than 5 million customers was also disrupted, according to the company. Amazon Web Services, which powers a large portion of internet traffic said in a statement it was "investigating connectivity issues (with an) external provider." gc/rl