Major Web Outage Affects Numerous Websites and Apps

A large-scale online failure has disrupted many online platforms and applications around the world, and users reporting problems accessing the internet due to difficulties at the cloud computing platform.

The affected platforms include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-owned services including its primary shopping platform and the Ring home security firm.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected in addition to its affiliates Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were further notifications of difficulties accessing the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring device owners used social media to state their security devices were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, accounts of disruptions on particular apps ran into the thousands for every service.

Officials confirmed that the problem originated in the eastern region of the America at AWS, a unit that supplies essential web framework for many businesses, who rent out capacity on Amazon servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive web hosting system.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the America (8am BST), the company announced “increased failure rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The widespread consequence appeared to disrupt services around the world, with the Downdetector site indicating problems with the same sites in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks web disruptions, also reported a rise in problems on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the Virginia area, the site of the eastern US data center where AWS said the problems originated.