Significant Web Disruption Hits Dozens Websites and Apps

A large-scale online outage has impacted many websites and mobile apps around the world, as users experiencing troubles connecting to the web following issues at the web hosting platform.

The affected apps comprise the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-managed services such as its main retail site and the Ring security doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was affected along with its branches the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with further notifications of difficulties using the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring users took to networks to state their security devices were not working.

Just within Britain, notifications of issues on particular apps totaled the many thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the problem started in the eastern region of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a division that provides essential web backbone for numerous businesses, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest online services service.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the America (8am BST), officials reported “elevated failure rates and delays” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The ripple effect appeared to hit platforms around the world, and the problem monitoring service showing issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors web disruptions, further indicated a increase in outages on Monday morning, with many of them found in Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the problems began.