Substantial Online Outage Impacts Numerous Sites and Applications

A widespread internet outage has disrupted many websites and mobile apps globally, with users reporting issues accessing the internet after problems at the cloud computing system.

The impacted services encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-operated platforms including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and further notifications of issues accessing the HMRC online portal on that morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring customers turned to networks to report their doorbells were malfunctioning.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of problems on individual platforms ran into the tens of thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the problem originated in the Atlantic coast of the America at Amazon Web Services, a unit that offers crucial internet backbone for a host of firms, who rent out space on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global online services service.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “increased failure rates and latencies” for AWS services in a area on the east coast of the America. The cascading impact appeared to affect services around the world, with the outage tracking website reporting problems with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on internet outages, also reported a increase in problems on the start of the week, with many of them located in the Virginia area, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the issues started.