Significant Online Outage Affects Dozens Websites and Applications

An extensive internet outage has affected many websites and apps globally, as users reporting issues getting online following issues at the cloud computing platform.

The affected services comprise the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-owned services like its key e-commerce site and the Ring device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, with further notifications of difficulties accessing the HM Revenue and Customs site on that morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring device owners turned to online platforms to complain their home gadgets were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, accounts of disruptions on individual apps ran into the many thousands for every service.

The company stated that the issue originated in the east coast of the United States at AWS, a section that supplies crucial web framework for a host of businesses, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global cloud computing system.

Just after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “increased error rates and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact appeared to hit services globally, with the outage tracking website indicating issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors web disruptions, further indicated a rise in problems on the start of the week, and numerous instances situated in Virginia, the location of the eastern US data center where AWS said the problems began.