An AWS failure took down the internet Monday morning – and the aftershocks continue

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ZDNET’s key takeaways

• 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…