Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a major outage early Monday morning before most services were restored, the company said.

AWS, which provides cloud-computing services to companies around the world, first reported “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region,” in Northern Virginia at 3:11 a.m. EDT. .

At 4:26 a.m. EDT, AWS reported “significant error rates” and said its engineers were “actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause.”

At 5:01 a.m. EDT, it said the issue appeared to be connected with Domain Name System (DNS) resolution, which maps IP addresses to hosts, of its DynamoDB database.

At 6:35 a.m. EDT, the company said the DNS issue “has been fully mitigated,” and most services have been resto

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