One of the largest web hosts in the world was down early Monday, Oct. 20, bringing down popular websites and online platforms such as Fortnite, Snapchat, Reddit, Apple Music, Pokemon GO and a whole lot more.
Amazon Web Services went down in the early Monday hours, the company posted on its website.
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As of this writing, the problem appears to be mostly resolved, as websites appear to be coming back online, though some are still not running.
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Downdetector, a website that provides real-time outage monitoring, said it received more than eight million reports of AWS outages globally.
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Amazon's AWS provides on-demand cloud and computing platforms.
AWS is also one of the largest web hosts on the planet, hosting millions of websites.
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The problem appears to be mostly resolved now, but some web functions may not work yet.
Amazon's update, posted on its website at 10:29 a.m. (Eastern time), said, "We are seeing early signs of recovery for the connectivity issues and are continuing to investigate the root cause."
Why were AWS sites down?
The company said on its website that it began experiencing outages shortly after 3 a.m. (Eastern time).
By 4:26 a.m., the company said a potential root cause for the outage was related to the DynamoDB application programming interface, which Tom's Guide explained is a type of digital phone book for the internet.
By 5:22 a.m., the company said it applied "initial mitigations" and that early signs of recovery were being seen. However, the company added some functions may fail.
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By 5:27 a.m., the company said it was seeing "significant signs of recover," with most functions running successfully.
At 6:35 a.m., the company said "the underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now."
The company also said it was continuing to work toward full resolution, and that while most operations were running properly, some functions were still experiencing increased error rates.
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