Significant Web Outage Impacts Numerous Sites and Applications

An extensive web disruption has affected many websites and apps globally, as users reporting problems accessing the internet following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

The affected services include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with several Amazon-operated operations including its key e-commerce website and the Ring security device manufacturer.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was impacted as well as its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of problems accessing the HM Revenue and Customs site on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring users took to online platforms to report their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on specific platforms reached the tens of thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the outage originated in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a unit that offers vital online framework for numerous companies, who rent out space on Amazon servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global web hosting service.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), the company announced “elevated error rates and delays” for AWS services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The ripple effect seemed to affect services globally, and the problem monitoring service showing issues with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a increase in issues on the start of the week, with many of them found in the state of Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the problems originated.