Major Online Outage Affects Numerous Sites and Applications

A widespread online outage has disrupted many sites and applications worldwide, as users noting problems accessing the internet after problems at the online infrastructure service.

The affected services include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with several Amazon-operated platforms such as its primary shopping website and the Ring device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of difficulties accessing the the tax authority online portal on Monday morning. Also in the UK, many Ring device owners used social media to state their home gadgets were failing.

Just within Britain, reports of issues on particular applications totaled the tens of thousands for every service.

Amazon reported that the outage originated in the east coast of the America at the cloud division, a section that provides crucial web backbone for a host of companies, who utilize capacity on AWS infrastructure. The cloud platform is the most extensive online services system.

Just after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “elevated failure rates and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the eastern US of the US. The widespread consequence seemed to hit apps around the world, and the outage tracking website reporting issues with the same sites in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on online failures, additionally noted a surge in problems on that morning, with many of them found in the Virginia area, the location of the eastern US data center where the company stated the outage began.