Significant Online Outage Impacts Dozens Websites and Apps

A widespread internet disruption has affected numerous sites and applications worldwide, and users experiencing issues getting online following issues at the online infrastructure platform.

The disrupted services include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-operated operations like its key e-commerce website and the Ring device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was impacted along with its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of problems accessing the HM Revenue and Customs website on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring customers used networks to state their security devices were failing.

Just within Britain, notifications of disruptions on specific apps totaled the many thousands for each platform.

Amazon reported that the problem began in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a section that supplies vital internet infrastructure for a host of firms, who lease space on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global web hosting platform.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), officials reported “elevated problem frequencies and latencies” for AWS services in a area on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact appeared to affect apps globally, and the Downdetector site indicating outages with the same sites in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on web disruptions, further indicated a rise in outages on that morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where the company stated the outage started.