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A major AWS outage disrupted global websites, apps, and services.
The issue stemmed from a DNS failure in AWS's US-East-1 region.
In the latest update, Amazon said the AWS outage has been resolved.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the backbone of much of the modern internet. Early Monday morning, at approximately 12:11 a.m. ET, it suffered a major outage, knocking out tons of websites, apps, and online platforms worldwide. The disruption originated in the company's critical US-East-1 region in Northern Virginia, AWS's largest and most essential data hub.
Widespread slowdowns and timeouts
AWS first acknowledged the issue when it detected increased error rates and latency across numerous key services, including EC2, Lambda, and DynamoDB -- Amazon's cloud database technology. Engineers later identified a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem affecting the DynamoDB API endpoint, which cascaded across dependent systems.
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