Significant Internet Outage Hits Numerous Online Platforms and Applications

A widespread web outage has impacted numerous online platforms and applications around the world, and users reporting issues accessing the internet after problems at the cloud computing platform.

The disrupted services encompass Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-owned operations such as its key e-commerce platform and the Ring security doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was disrupted in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, with additional accounts of issues using the HMRC site on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring users took to social media to state their doorbells were failing.

In the UK alone, accounts of problems on individual platforms reached the tens of thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the issue started in the eastern region of the US at AWS, a section that provides crucial internet backbone for a host of businesses, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global web hosting service.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “elevated error rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the eastern US of the United States. The cascading impact appeared to hit services worldwide, with the problem monitoring service showing issues with the identical platforms in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors internet outages, further indicated a rise in outages on the start of the week, with many of them found in Virginia, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the outage began.