Major Online Failure Impacts Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

An extensive online disruption has disrupted many sites and apps worldwide, with users noting issues connecting to the web after problems at Amazon’s web hosting platform.

The impacted platforms encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with several Amazon-owned platforms such as its main retail website and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of problems reaching the HM Revenue and Customs website on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring device owners turned to networks to state their security devices were failing.

In the UK alone, reports of disruptions on specific apps totaled the thousands for each platform.

Officials confirmed that the outage started in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a unit that provides vital online backbone for many businesses, who utilize space on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global web hosting system.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “increased failure rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a region on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect seemed to disrupt platforms worldwide, with the Downdetector site reporting outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors internet outages, further indicated a rise in problems on Monday morning, with many of them found in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where the company stated the outage started.