A widespread outage affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS) temporarily took down dozens of major websites and applications Monday, underscoring how deeply the cloud computing giant is embedded in the modern internet.

The disruption was first reported around 3:11 a.m. ET in AWS’s US-East-1 region, hosted in northern Virginia, according to CNBC .

The company initially attributed the issue to DNS problems affecting DynamoDB, a database system that supports many AWS-powered services. DNS, or Domain Name System, converts website names into IP addresses so browsers and apps can load correctly.

By 5:01 a.m. ET, AWS said it was “working on multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery” after reporting an “operational issue” impacting more than 70 internal services, according to CNBC. Around 6:3

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