A widespread outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted access to several major digital platforms, including financial apps, AI tools, and popular entertainment services. The incident, which lasted for nearly 15 hours, highlighted the scale of global reliance on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, a backbone for everything from banking apps to streaming platforms.
How did the issue begin?
According to Amazon’s service health dashboard, the problem originated from a DNS resolution fault affecting DynamoDB API endpoints in the US-East-1…








