Major Online Outage Hits Numerous Websites and Apps

A widespread internet failure has affected dozens websites and apps worldwide, and users noting issues accessing the internet due to difficulties at the web hosting service.

The impacted platforms include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-managed operations such as its main retail platform and the Ring security doorbell company.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was disrupted in addition to its affiliates Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of difficulties using the HMRC website on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring device owners turned to networks to state their security devices were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, accounts of problems on specific apps totaled the many thousands for every service.

Officials confirmed that the problem originated in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a division that offers essential online framework for a host of firms, who utilize resources on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive web hosting system.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), the company announced “higher error rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a area on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect seemed to hit services globally, and the Downdetector site reporting problems with the same sites in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on online failures, further indicated a increase in problems on Monday morning, and numerous instances situated in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where AWS said the problems began.