Amazon Web Services’ outage was caused by a DNS errorWebsites were down for 70 minutes, a full recovery took hoursBig customers like Netflix, Spotify and Slack might’ve lost millionsAmazon Web Services (AWS) has shared more details on the recent major outage which took down many major websites and apps for nearly a day.

Yesterday, a major AWS outage brought the world to a standstill. But why did it happen? And will it ever happen again?

Amazon Web Services is down, and the ripple effect is huge. The cloud giant’s outage has knocked out everything from Snapchat to Reddit to online banking apps.

The issue impacted thousands of websites and apps across the globe. The website DownDetector showed users reporting issues with Reddit, Snapchat, Ring, Roblox, Fortnite, Amazon, Starbucks, Facebook and more. Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange, said its services was unavailable because of the AWS outage.

Amazon Web Services experienced DNS resolution issues on Monday morning, taking down wide swaths of the web—and highlighting a long-standing weakness in the internet's infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services, a cloud platform that supports a portion of the internet, experienced a massive outage on Monday.

Web browsers interact through Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. DNS translates domain names to IP addresses so browsers can load Internet resources. Each device connected to the Internet has a unique IP address which other machines use to find the device.

The outage affected websites like Coinbase and Fortnite, and disrupted services like Signal, Zoom, and Amazon's own products, including Ring.

Maybe we rely on Amazon Web Services a little too much. Dozens of sites and apps went dark this morning. Here's why.