Major Internet Failure Affects Dozens Sites and Apps

An extensive online outage has affected dozens sites and apps globally, and users noting issues connecting to the web after problems at the cloud computing platform.

The disrupted services include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-owned platforms such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring home security firm.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was impacted in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, with further notifications of issues using the the tax authority website on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring users took to online platforms to report their home gadgets were malfunctioning.

Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of disruptions on specific platforms ran into the thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the issue began in the Atlantic coast of the US at Amazon Web Services, a section that provides vital web backbone for many firms, who lease space on Amazon servers. AWS is the most extensive web hosting system.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “higher problem frequencies and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the eastern US of the America. The cascading impact seemed to affect platforms worldwide, with the outage tracking website showing issues with the identical platforms in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks web disruptions, further indicated a increase in issues on the start of the week, and numerous instances situated in the state of Virginia, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the problems originated.