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Many websites and apps hit by major outage - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
"We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region. This issue also affects other AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region as well. During this time, customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases. Engineers were immediately engaged and are actively working on both mitigating the issue, and fully understanding the root cause."
"Amazon Web Services said they have "identified a potential root cause" as to what is behind the massive internet outage. They said in a statement, "Based on our investigation, the issue appears to be related to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1." They added they are looking into "multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery." On their website a full statement reads, "We can confirm significant error rates for requests made to the DynamoDB endpoint in the US-EAST-1 Region.""
A major internet outage on Monday morning caused widespread service disruptions across dozens of websites, banks, apps, retailers and phone companies. DownDetector recorded a huge spike in reports related to hosts of affected sites. Amazon Web Services identified a potential root cause linked to DNS resolution of the DynamoDB API endpoint in US-EAST-1 and indicated engineers are pursuing multiple parallel paths to accelerate recovery. AWS confirmed significant error rates for requests to the DynamoDB endpoint in US-EAST-1 and said the issue affects other AWS services. Customers may be unable to create or update Support Cases while engineers work to mitigate the problem.
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