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AWS outage centered in US-EAST-1 data center disrupted major online services

Problem traced to DNS and DynamoDB issues, preventing apps from accessing data

Users worldwide reported outages affecting social media, gaming, and finance apps

Experts warn reliance on centralized cloud services can amplify internet disruptions

Internet disruptions tied to Amazon’s cloud computing service affected people around the world Monday trying to connect to online services used for work, social media and video games.

About three hours after the outage began, Amazon Web Services said it was starting to recover from the problem. But the company later said it was continuing to respond to “significant” errors and connectivity issues across multiple services.

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