Substantial Online Disruption Impacts Dozens Online Platforms and Applications

A widespread internet outage has impacted many sites and applications worldwide, and users reporting troubles connecting to the web due to difficulties at Amazon’s web hosting platform.

The affected services include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned services such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring home security firm.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected as well as its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of issues reaching the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, several Ring customers used online platforms to state their home gadgets were not working.

In the UK alone, reports of disruptions on individual apps totaled the thousands for every service.

Amazon reported that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a unit that supplies essential web backbone for numerous businesses, who lease space on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive online services service.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), the company announced “higher problem frequencies and slowdowns” for the cloud services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The widespread consequence was seen to disrupt services globally, with the problem monitoring service indicating issues with the same sites in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks web disruptions, also reported a increase in problems on Monday morning, with many of them situated in the state of Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the outage originated.