A massive cloud outage stemming from Amazon Web Services's key US-EAST-1 region, its hub near the United States capitol in northern Virginia, caused widespread disruptions of websites and platforms around the world on Monday morning. Amazon's main e-commerce platform and other properties including Ring doorbells and the Alexa smart assistant suffered interruptions and outages throughout the morning, as did Meta's communication platform WhatsApp , OpenAI's ChatGPT , PayPal's Venmo payment platform, multiple web services from Epic Games, multiple British government sites, and many others.

The outages stemmed from Amazon's “DynamoDB” database application programming interfaces in US-EAST-1, and AWS said in status updates that the problem was specifically related to DNS resolut

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