India, Oct. 21 -- On Monday, October 20, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a cloud computing giant, faced a major outage, which disrupted the Internet services. As reported by Mashable, the problems began in the early hours, recovered for some time, but repeated during midday. The outage affected platforms like Snapchat, United Airlines, McDonald's, Venmo, Fortnite, Disney+, and more.

Amazon updated users throughout the day, reporting steady improvements. By 3:01 p.m. PT (6:01 p.m. ET), all AWS services had returned to normal operations, though some, including AWS Config, Redshift, and Amazon Connect, were still clearing backlogs of messages.

The outage was traced to a Domain Name System (DNS) error at AWS's northern Virginia data center, its ...