Major Internet Outage Affects Numerous Sites and Applications

A large-scale online failure has disrupted numerous websites and mobile apps around the world, with users experiencing issues connecting to the web following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing system.

The disrupted platforms encompass the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned services including its primary shopping platform and the Ring doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was affected along with its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of issues reaching the HMRC website on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring customers used social media to state their home gadgets were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, reports of disruptions on particular platforms totaled the many thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the problem began in the Atlantic coast of the United States at AWS, a division that supplies vital web framework for numerous companies, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global online services platform.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), the company announced “increased problem frequencies and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact seemed to affect platforms globally, and the outage tracking website showing outages with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks online failures, also reported a rise in problems on the start of the week, including several cases situated in Virginia, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the issues began.