Significant Web Failure Hits Numerous Websites and Apps

A widespread online outage has affected dozens online platforms and mobile apps worldwide, with users reporting issues accessing the internet due to difficulties at the cloud computing platform.

The disrupted apps include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-owned platforms such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and further notifications of problems using the HM Revenue and Customs website on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring customers used networks to complain their home gadgets were not working.

In the UK alone, reports of disruptions on particular applications reached the tens of thousands for every service.

The company stated that the outage began in the east coast of the America at AWS, a division that offers vital internet infrastructure for numerous companies, who lease resources on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest web hosting service.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), officials reported “higher error rates and delays” for AWS services in a region on the eastern US of the US. The widespread consequence seemed to disrupt apps worldwide, with the outage tracking website reporting problems with the corresponding services in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks online failures, also reported a surge in issues on that morning, with many of them found in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the issues originated.