Major Web Disruption Impacts Dozens Websites and Apps

A widespread web outage has affected dozens online platforms and mobile apps around the world, as users noting issues connecting to the web after problems at the web hosting system.

The impacted apps encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-owned platforms such as its main retail platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was impacted in addition to its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were additional accounts of difficulties reaching the the tax authority site on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring device owners turned to online platforms to complain their security devices were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on individual apps totaled the many thousands for each app.

The company stated that the problem originated in the east coast of the United States at the cloud division, a section that supplies vital web backbone for numerous businesses, who lease capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive cloud computing service.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “increased problem frequencies and latencies” for AWS services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The cascading impact appeared to hit platforms around the world, and the problem monitoring service showing problems with the corresponding services in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors online failures, further indicated a increase in issues on the start of the week, with many of them located in the Virginia area, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the problems began.