A massive outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday caused widespread internet disruption, taking down major apps, websites, and online tools used by millions of people across the world. Services were gradually restored after several hours, but the incident underscored how deeply modern digital infrastructure depends on Amazon’s cloud computing network. Advertisement

The disruption began around 07:11 GMT when AWS experienced a failure at one of its largest data centres in Virginia. The problem stemmed from a faulty update to the API of DynamoDB, one of AWS’s core database services that stores critical data for numerous online platforms.

The update reportedly affected the Domain Name System (DNS), which acts like the internet’s phone book by translating website names into numerical I

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