Major Online Outage Hits Numerous Sites and Apps

A widespread online outage has disrupted numerous online platforms and apps around the world, with users experiencing troubles getting online after problems at Amazon’s online infrastructure service.

The disrupted apps include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned services such as its key e-commerce website and the Ring security doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with additional accounts of issues reaching the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring device owners took to online platforms to report their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on individual platforms totaled the thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the problem originated in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a unit that offers vital online infrastructure for a host of firms, who lease resources on AWS infrastructure. The cloud platform is the most extensive web hosting platform.

Just after late night (PDT) in the US (8am BST), officials reported “increased problem frequencies and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The widespread consequence was seen to affect services worldwide, and the problem monitoring service reporting problems with the identical platforms in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on web disruptions, additionally noted a surge in outages on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where AWS said the issues started.