Substantial Online Failure Affects Numerous Websites and Mobile Apps

An extensive online outage has disrupted many online platforms and applications worldwide, with users experiencing problems connecting to the web following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing system.

The affected platforms encompass Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-managed services including its primary shopping website and the Ring device manufacturer.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and additional accounts of issues reaching the HMRC online portal on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring users turned to social media to state their home gadgets were failing.

Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of issues on particular platforms totaled the many thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the problem originated in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a division that offers essential web backbone for numerous firms, who rent out space on AWS infrastructure. The cloud platform is the biggest global online services system.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), officials reported “higher problem frequencies and delays” for the cloud services in a zone on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The widespread consequence was seen to disrupt platforms around the world, and the problem monitoring service reporting problems with the identical platforms in multiple continents.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on online failures, additionally noted a increase in outages on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in the Virginia area, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the issues started.