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Amazon announced that its systems are largely back online following a major outage caused by technical issues within its cloud computing arm, AWS.
Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after massive global outage. (Representative Image)
Amazon on Monday (local time) announced that its systems are largely back online following a major outage caused by technical issues within its cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services (AWS).
While the company reported its systems to be back online, several users continued to experience residual delays across various services.
According to CNN, the disruption, which began overnight, temporarily brought down numerous high-profile websites, apps, and essential digital platforms across the globe, including apps like Snapchat and Facebook, gaming platforms such as Fortnite and Roblox, streaming services including Disney+ and Hulu, and critical services like Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and McDonald’s.
Financial institutions and crypto platforms, including Coinbase, also reported interruptions.
In addition to this, AI firm Perplexity and various smart home devices connected through Amazon’s ecosystem were aso affected.
According to CNN, AWS confirmed that it was experiencing “significant error rates for requests” at 1:26 am ET (10:56 am IST). The issue was later identified as a fault in the Domain Name System (DNS), which functions as the internet’s address directory, converting user-friendly web domains into numerical IP addresses understood by servers.
Though data remained secure, users were unable to access it, effectively separating many applications from their back-end systems.
A few hours later at 6:35 am ET (4:05 pm IST), Amazon confirmed that the DNS problem had been resolved. The company recommended that affected businesses clear their caches, temporary storage used to speed up service, to fully restore operations.
(With agency inputs)
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