Significant Internet Failure Affects Many Sites and Applications

A widespread online disruption has disrupted many online platforms and mobile apps around the world, and users reporting issues getting online following issues at the cloud computing platform.

The impacted platforms comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned operations such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring security doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted in addition to its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of issues reaching the HM Revenue and Customs site on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring users took to online platforms to complain their home gadgets were failing.

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

The company stated that the issue began in the Atlantic coast of the US at Amazon Web Services, a section that supplies vital internet backbone for numerous firms, who rent out space on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest web hosting platform.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), the company announced “higher error rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The ripple effect appeared to hit apps worldwide, and the outage tracking website reporting outages with the same sites in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks online failures, additionally noted a surge in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the issues started.