Major Internet Disruption Affects Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

A large-scale internet failure has disrupted many online platforms and apps globally, with users reporting troubles getting online following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

The impacted apps include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-owned operations such as its main retail platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were additional accounts of difficulties reaching the HM Revenue and Customs site on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, multiple Ring device owners turned to social media to complain their home gadgets were failing.

Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of disruptions on particular platforms ran into the many thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the outage originated in the eastern region of the America at the cloud division, a section that offers essential online backbone for many companies, who lease space on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the world’s largest online services service.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “higher problem frequencies and delays” for AWS services in a region on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact appeared to disrupt apps worldwide, and the outage tracking website showing issues with the same sites in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors online failures, additionally noted a rise in issues on that morning, and numerous instances located in the Virginia area, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the problems began.