Significant Web Outage Hits Dozens Online Platforms and Applications

An extensive online outage has disrupted numerous sites and apps around the world, with users reporting troubles getting online following issues at Amazon’s web hosting service.

The disrupted apps comprise Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-operated services such as its key e-commerce site and the Ring doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was impacted as well as its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of issues accessing the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Also in the UK, several Ring device owners turned to networks to report their security devices were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, accounts of issues on individual platforms reached the thousands for each app.

The company stated that the outage began in the eastern region of the America at Amazon Web Services, a unit that provides essential online backbone for many companies, who utilize resources on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing platform.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “elevated failure rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a zone on the eastern US of the America. The cascading impact was seen to affect platforms globally, with the Downdetector site reporting issues with the identical platforms in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on online failures, also reported a increase in outages on that morning, with many of them situated in the Virginia area, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the problems began.