Substantial Online Outage Impacts Many Online Platforms and Apps

An extensive web disruption has disrupted dozens sites and applications worldwide, with users experiencing problems connecting to the web due to difficulties at the web hosting platform.

The impacted apps comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-managed operations such as its key e-commerce site and the Ring doorbell doorbell company.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted as well as its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with further notifications of issues reaching the HMRC website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, several Ring users took to networks to state their doorbells were failing.

Just within Britain, notifications of problems on individual apps reached the tens of thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the issue started in the east coast of the America at the cloud division, a unit that provides vital online infrastructure for a host of firms, who lease space on AWS infrastructure. AWS is the biggest global cloud computing platform.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “higher problem frequencies and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact appeared to disrupt services around the world, and the problem monitoring service indicating issues with the identical platforms in multiple continents.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors online failures, also reported a increase in outages on Monday morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where the company stated the problems began.