AWS outage explained: Causes, affected services, impact, and recovery efforts- all we know so far

On Monday, Amazon Web Services (AWS), the world’s largest cloud computing platform, experienced a significant outage, impacting millions of users and thousands of businesses worldwide. The disruption affected online services from banks, social media platforms, gaming companies, and more.

Cause of the outage: DNS issue and EC2 internal network failure

The outage originated at AWS’s US-EAST-1 data center in northern Virginia, the provider’s oldest and largest site. According to AWS, the problem stemmed from a Domain Name System (DNS) issue that…