A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

The company says the Amazon Web Services outage that disrupted online activity for a large portion of the internet on Monday was likely caused by errors related to its domain name system.

Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud infrastructure giant relied on by millions of companies worldwide, experienced a significant outage on Monday, Oct.

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If, however, you were up and trying to use ChatGPT, Snapchat, Reddit, Fortnite, or even Amazon, you definitely noticed. According to the AWS status updates, the company reported “increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region.

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