Major Internet Failure Hits Numerous Sites and Applications

A widespread internet outage has impacted many sites and mobile apps around the world, with users reporting troubles getting online after problems at Amazon’s online infrastructure platform.

The impacted apps include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-operated services like its key e-commerce platform and the Ring doorbell device manufacturer.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted along with its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, and also reports of problems reaching the the tax authority site on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring customers used online platforms to state their doorbells were failing.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on individual platforms totaled the thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the issue began in the Atlantic coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a division that supplies vital internet framework for numerous businesses, who utilize space on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive cloud computing service.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), the company announced “elevated failure rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The ripple effect was seen to disrupt apps globally, with the Downdetector site indicating outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors web disruptions, further indicated a surge in issues on Monday morning, and numerous instances found in the Virginia area, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the issues started.