Major Web Disruption Impacts Numerous Sites and Applications

A widespread online outage has affected many online platforms and mobile apps globally, and users noting troubles accessing the internet due to difficulties at the web hosting platform.

The affected apps encompass Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-managed services like its primary shopping website and the Ring device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted in addition to its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of difficulties accessing the HM Revenue and Customs site on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, several Ring users turned to social media to state their doorbells were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, notifications of issues on specific apps totaled the thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the issue started in the east coast of the America at Amazon Web Services, a section that offers crucial internet backbone for numerous businesses, who lease capacity on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive online services platform.

Just after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “increased failure rates and delays” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect seemed to disrupt platforms around the world, with the Downdetector site indicating issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a increase in problems on that morning, including several cases found in the Virginia area, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the outage began.