Substantial Web Failure Impacts Numerous Websites and Mobile Apps

A large-scale online outage has affected dozens online platforms and apps globally, as users noting problems accessing the internet due to difficulties at the web hosting platform.

The affected platforms comprise the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-owned platforms including its main retail platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of difficulties accessing the HMRC site on Monday morning. Also in the UK, many Ring customers took to social media to state their doorbells were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, reports of problems on individual applications ran into the thousands for every service.

The company stated that the outage started in the east coast of the America at AWS, a division that offers essential internet backbone for a host of businesses, who rent out capacity on Amazon servers. AWS is the most extensive cloud computing system.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), officials reported “increased failure rates and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The ripple effect was seen to hit apps globally, and the Downdetector site reporting issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on internet outages, also reported a increase in problems on that morning, including several cases situated in the state of Virginia, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the issues originated.