Major Online Outage Impacts Many Websites and Apps

A widespread web disruption has affected many websites and applications around the world, with users experiencing problems connecting to the web after problems at Amazon’s web hosting service.

The disrupted platforms include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-owned operations including its key e-commerce platform and the Ring doorbell doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, with also reports of problems using the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring users turned to social media to state their home gadgets were not working.

In the UK alone, accounts of issues on individual applications totaled the many thousands for every service.

Amazon reported that the problem started in the east coast of the United States at the cloud division, a division that offers essential internet backbone for many firms, who lease capacity on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive online services service.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), the company announced “increased failure rates and delays” for the cloud services in a area on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact was seen to affect services worldwide, with the problem monitoring service showing problems with the same sites in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks online failures, additionally noted a rise in problems on Monday morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where AWS said the issues started.