Major Online Failure Hits Dozens Websites and Mobile Apps

A widespread web outage has disrupted dozens sites and apps around the world, and users noting issues accessing the internet following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure system.

The disrupted apps encompass the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-owned platforms including its main retail site and the Ring security doorbell company.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its branches the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of problems using the the tax authority website on that morning. Also in the UK, several Ring device owners took to online platforms to state their doorbells were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on specific applications reached the tens of thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the issue originated in the Atlantic coast of the United States at AWS, a division that offers vital web backbone for many companies, who utilize space on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest online services service.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), the company announced “higher problem frequencies and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the eastern US of the United States. The ripple effect was seen to disrupt platforms around the world, with the Downdetector site indicating outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks online failures, additionally noted a increase in problems on Monday morning, including several cases found in Virginia, the location of the eastern US data center where officials confirmed the issues originated.