Significant Online Outage Affects Many Sites and Applications

A large-scale online failure has disrupted numerous online platforms and mobile apps around the world, with users noting issues getting online after problems at the web hosting platform.

The impacted platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-owned operations including its main retail platform and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was affected as well as its affiliates Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of problems accessing the HMRC website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring customers turned to networks to state their home gadgets were failing.

Just within Britain, notifications of problems on specific applications reached the thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the issue began in the east coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a section that provides crucial web backbone for a host of businesses, who rent out space on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the world’s largest cloud computing service.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), officials reported “increased failure rates and slowdowns” for the cloud services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The widespread consequence was seen to hit services around the world, and the Downdetector site indicating issues with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a surge in issues on Monday morning, and numerous instances situated in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the problems started.