Major Internet Outage Hits Numerous Websites and Mobile Apps

A large-scale internet failure has affected numerous websites and apps globally, and users experiencing issues accessing the internet after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The impacted apps comprise Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-operated services like its key e-commerce platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was disrupted along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of issues accessing the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring users took to social media to report their security devices were malfunctioning.

Just within Britain, reports of disruptions on individual platforms totaled the many thousands for each app.

The company stated that the problem originated in the Atlantic coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a division that offers crucial web framework for a host of firms, who rent out space on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest online services platform.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), Amazon confirmed “higher problem frequencies and latencies” for the cloud services in a zone on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect seemed to hit apps globally, and the Downdetector site reporting problems with the identical platforms in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks internet outages, additionally noted a rise in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the outage originated.