Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced a significant outage starting early Monday morning, impacting many online services globally.

The disruption was first noted around 3:11 a.m. Eastern Time when AWS reported increased error rates and latencies affecting multiple services in the US-EAST-1 data center region.

The big picture: AWS acknowledged “significant error rates” and stated that engineers were actively working to resolve the problem. • By approximately 6 a.m. Eastern Time, AWS reported recovery had begun for most affected services and confirmed global services relying on US-EAST-1 were coming back online.

Why it matters: Amazon operates one of the world’s largest cloud computing infrastructures, used by governments, universities, businesses and media organizations. • Services a

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