India, Oct. 20 -- Amazon on Monday said it has identified the cause of the AWS outage that "taken out half the internet" and is now seeing "significant signs of recovery."

Amazon Web Services, the world's largest cloud-services provider, suffered a widespread disruption on Monday morning that degraded services for several companies, including AI firm Perplexity, Paypal's Venmo, as well as Coinbase and Robinhood financial platforms.

"The underlying DNS issue has been fully mitigated, and most AWS Service operations are succeeding normally now. Some requests may be throttled while we work toward full resolution," the company said.

According to the AWS Health Dashboard, "The issue appears to be related to the DNS resolution of the Dynamo ...