Significant Internet Outage Impacts Many Websites and Apps

A large-scale web outage has disrupted numerous websites and apps around the world, as users experiencing problems connecting to the web due to difficulties at the web hosting platform.

The affected services include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-managed services including its main retail platform and the Ring home security firm.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and additional accounts of difficulties reaching the HMRC website on that morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring device owners took to networks to state their home gadgets were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on individual platforms reached the thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the problem started in the Atlantic coast of the US at the cloud division, a division that offers crucial web infrastructure for numerous firms, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. AWS is the most extensive online services service.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the America (8am BST), the company announced “elevated failure rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a area on the east coast of the America. The ripple effect appeared to hit platforms around the world, with the problem monitoring service indicating problems with the same sites in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on web disruptions, additionally noted a surge in problems on that morning, including several cases found in the state of Virginia, the site of the eastern US data center where the company stated the outage originated.