Substantial Online Failure Hits Numerous Websites and Applications

A widespread web outage has affected dozens online platforms and apps worldwide, with users noting troubles accessing the internet following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure platform.

The disrupted apps comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-operated platforms like its main retail site and the Ring security home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was disrupted along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of difficulties reaching the HMRC site on Monday morning. Also in the UK, many Ring customers turned to social media to state their home gadgets were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of disruptions on specific applications ran into the tens of thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the issue started in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a section that provides essential online framework for a host of firms, who utilize capacity on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest online services platform.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “increased failure rates and delays” for AWS services in a area on the eastern US of the America. The cascading impact seemed to disrupt apps around the world, and the problem monitoring service showing outages with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks internet outages, further indicated a surge in outages on the start of the week, with many of them located in Virginia, the site of the eastern US data center where officials confirmed the issues originated.