Amazon identifies potential root cause for AWS outage, sees ‘significant signs of recovery’

Amazon.com Inc. on Monday said it has identified the root cause for the AWS outage that’s “taken out half the internet”, and now seeing “significant signs of recovery”.

“The issue appears to be related to the DNS resolution of the Dynamo DB API endpoint in US-East-1,” according to the AWS Health Dashboard. “Global services or features that rely on US-EAST-1 endpoints such as IAM updates and Dynamo DB Global Tables may also be experiencing issues.”