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Amazon says AWS cloud service back to normal after outage

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Amazon.com cloud service returned to normal operations on Monday (October 20) afternoon, the company said, after an internet outage that caused global turmoil among thousands of sites.

Breakdown
  • Amazon Web Services returned to normal operations after a global outage.
  • The outage disrupted thousands of sites, including Snapchat and Reddit. 5s
  • Some AWS systems are still processing a backlog of messages. 14s
  • The issue was traced to a DNS problem affecting AWS's DynamoDB API. 1m 11s
  • This is the third major incident in five years linked to AWS's US East-1 data center. 57s
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