Substantial Online Outage Impacts Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

An extensive web failure has disrupted dozens sites and apps globally, and users reporting issues accessing the internet following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure platform.

The disrupted apps include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-owned platforms such as its primary shopping site and the Ring doorbell doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was impacted in addition to its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of issues reaching the HMRC website on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring device owners took to social media to report their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of issues on individual platforms ran into the thousands for every service.

Amazon reported that the issue started in the Atlantic coast of the United States at the cloud division, a division that provides vital internet backbone for many companies, who lease resources on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive cloud computing system.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “higher failure rates and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect appeared to hit apps globally, with the Downdetector site reporting outages with the same sites in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks web disruptions, also reported a increase in outages on that morning, including several cases found in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where the company stated the problems began.