India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said it has identified the root cause for the AWS outage that's "taken out half the internet", and now seeing "significant signs of recovery".

"The issue appears to be related to the DNS resolution of the Dynamo DB API endpoint in US-East-1," according to the AWS Health Dashboard. "Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and Dynamo DB Global Tables may also be experiencing issues."

AWS has "applied initial mitigations" and "we are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding."

"We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information," AWS said on the dashboard.

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