Significant Internet Outage Affects Many Sites and Apps

A large-scale internet disruption has disrupted many sites and apps worldwide, as users noting problems connecting to the web following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure system.

The affected apps encompass Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-managed operations such as its main retail platform and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of difficulties accessing the the tax authority online portal on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring customers turned to online platforms to report their security devices were not working.

Just within Britain, accounts of disruptions on particular platforms totaled the tens of thousands for every service.

Officials confirmed that the issue started in the eastern region of the America at AWS, a unit that offers essential web backbone for a host of companies, who rent out space on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing system.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “elevated error rates and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the eastern US of the US. The widespread consequence appeared to hit platforms worldwide, and the Downdetector site indicating outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that reports on web disruptions, further indicated a increase in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the issues started.