Substantial Online Disruption Affects Many Sites and Applications

An extensive web failure has affected dozens sites and applications worldwide, as users noting troubles connecting to the web after problems at the web hosting system.

The impacted services comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-operated platforms like its key e-commerce website and the Ring security home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its branches Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and further notifications of problems accessing the HMRC website on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring users took to online platforms to state their home gadgets were failing.

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

The company stated that the outage started in the east coast of the United States at AWS, a division that offers crucial internet backbone for a host of businesses, who utilize resources on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global web hosting platform.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “elevated problem frequencies and latencies” for AWS services in a area on the eastern US of the United States. The widespread consequence appeared to affect apps worldwide, with the problem monitoring service indicating outages with the same sites in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks web disruptions, also reported a surge in outages on that morning, and numerous instances situated in the state of Virginia, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the outage began.