New Delhi, Oct. 20 -- 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.

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 prevented applications from locating the DynamoDB API, a key cloud database used by multiple services. The failure was traced to the EC2 internal network, Amazon's high-speed network connecting cloud services within its data centers.

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