Major Web Disruption Impacts Many Sites and Mobile Apps

A widespread online outage has affected numerous online platforms and mobile apps globally, as users reporting issues getting online following issues at the online infrastructure service.

The affected services encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-managed operations like its main retail website and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of issues using the HMRC online portal on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring users turned to social media to state their doorbells were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of issues on specific applications reached the thousands for every service.

The company stated that the outage began in the east coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a section that offers essential web backbone for a host of companies, who utilize space on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global cloud computing platform.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), the company announced “elevated failure rates and delays” for AWS services in a region on the eastern US of the America. The cascading impact appeared to hit apps around the world, with the Downdetector site reporting outages with the identical platforms in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks web disruptions, additionally noted a surge in outages on Monday morning, with many of them located in the state of Virginia, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the outage started.