Significant Web Outage Impacts Dozens Online Platforms and Mobile Apps

A widespread web failure has affected numerous websites and apps globally, with users noting troubles connecting to the web due to difficulties at the cloud computing platform.

The impacted apps include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-managed services including its primary shopping site and the Ring doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were also reports of issues using the the tax authority site on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring users took to online platforms to complain their doorbells were failing.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of disruptions on particular applications reached the tens of thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the problem originated in the Atlantic coast of the America at the cloud division, a unit that provides vital internet framework for many businesses, who utilize resources on the company's servers. AWS is the biggest global cloud computing platform.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the United States (8am BST), the company announced “increased error rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact appeared to hit platforms around the world, with the outage tracking website indicating problems with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on web disruptions, additionally noted a rise in issues on Monday morning, and numerous instances situated in the state of Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the problems originated.