Major Web Disruption Hits Many Sites and Applications

An extensive internet outage has impacted numerous online platforms and mobile apps globally, and users experiencing issues connecting to the web after problems at Amazon’s web hosting platform.

The affected services encompass Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-managed services like its primary shopping site and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its branches Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of issues accessing the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on that morning. Additionally in Britain, several Ring device owners took to networks to state their home gadgets were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on specific applications totaled the thousands for each platform.

Amazon reported that the outage began in the eastern region of the America at Amazon Web Services, a section that provides essential online infrastructure for numerous firms, who lease capacity on Amazon servers. AWS is the most extensive web hosting platform.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the United States (8am BST), the company announced “increased error rates and latencies” for AWS services in a zone on the eastern US of the United States. The cascading impact appeared to hit apps around the world, with the outage tracking website showing outages with the corresponding services in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks internet outages, additionally noted a surge in issues on the start of the week, with many of them located in the Virginia area, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the problems started.