A major AWS outage Monday morning caused problems with many of the largest sites on the internet for several hours. And it's not the first time.

This morning at a customer event in New York City, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced a new load balancing tool, which gives developers much more fine-grained control over how content gets distributed across servers. The AWS Application Load Balancer, as it ...

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

The most recent update to the cloud giant’s service health page opens by recounting how a DNS mess meant services could not reach a DynamoDB API, which led to widespread outages. AWS got that sorted at 02:24 AM PDT on October 20th.

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