Amazon Web Services finally recovers after major outage

Amazon Web Services is back online after a major outage that took down parts of the internet. AWS, which powers everything from Netflix to government websites, suffered widespread disruptions in its main US East region. The issue stemmed from a domain name system or DNS failure that rippled across more than 70 AWS services, including Amazon.com, Alexa, and even some customer support systems. Amazon says all services returned to normal operations Monday evening, though some systems are still processing backl ...