Major Internet Outage Impacts Numerous Online Platforms and Mobile Apps

An extensive web failure has affected numerous sites and apps around the world, with users experiencing troubles accessing the internet after problems at the web hosting system.

The impacted platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-owned services including its primary shopping website and the Ring device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and further notifications of problems using the the tax authority online portal on that morning. Also in the UK, many Ring customers took to social media to report their security devices were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of disruptions on specific applications totaled the many thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the problem originated in the eastern region of the US at the cloud division, a unit that supplies crucial online backbone for many businesses, who utilize capacity on AWS infrastructure. The cloud platform is the biggest global web hosting service.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the America (8am BST), Amazon confirmed “increased failure rates and delays” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact was seen to hit platforms around the world, with the problem monitoring service indicating outages with the same sites in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks internet outages, also reported a increase in outages on that morning, and numerous instances situated in Virginia, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the outage originated.