A major outage is affecting Amazon Web Services (AWS), with even Amazon's own web page reported to be offline and dozens of other online services and websites affected, including disruption in the UK.
AWS reported an issue to its Health Dashboard at 12:11 AM PDT (7:11 UTC) of increased error rates and latencies for multiple services in the US-EAST-1 Region, effectively Amazon's home region in Northern Virginia.
By 1:26 AM PDT (8:26 UTC), the cloud biz said there were significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in that region, which were having a knock-on effect on other AWS services.
At 2:01 AM PDT (9:01 UTC), Amazon's techies identified a potential root cause for the error rates, saying it appeared to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint, and they were working on multiple parallel paths to speed recovery.
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