Significant Online Outage Impacts Dozens Online Platforms and Applications

A large-scale web outage has affected numerous online platforms and applications globally, as users experiencing problems accessing the internet after problems at the web hosting service.

The impacted apps include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-operated operations like its primary shopping website and the Ring device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted along with its affiliates Halifax and the Scottish bank, and additional accounts of problems using the HMRC website on Monday morning. Also in the UK, several Ring customers took to networks to state their home gadgets were failing.

Just within Britain, accounts of issues on individual applications reached the many thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the problem started in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a unit that supplies crucial online backbone for a host of businesses, who lease capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global web hosting system.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the United States (8am BST), the company announced “elevated failure rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a area on the eastern US of the US. The ripple effect seemed to affect platforms globally, with the outage tracking website showing outages with the same sites in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors online failures, also reported a increase in problems on Monday morning, including several cases located in the state of Virginia, the site of the eastern US data center where AWS said the problems originated.