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Amazon Web Services, a leader in the cloud infrastructure market, reported a major outage on Monday, taking down numerous big-name websites. Many now show signs of recovery.

The issue began shortly after midnight PDT in AWS' main US-East-1 region hosted in northern Virginia. A notice on AWS' status page said it was experiencing DNS problems with DynamoDB, its database service that underpins many other AWS applications.

DNS, or Domain Name System, translates website names to IP addresses so browsers and other applications can load.

AWS cited an "operational issue" affecting "multiple services" and said it was "working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery," in an update at 2:01 a.m. PDT. More

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