Significant Internet Failure Impacts Numerous Websites and Applications

A widespread online failure has affected numerous websites and mobile apps around the world, and users experiencing problems connecting to the web due to difficulties at the cloud computing platform.

The impacted services include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-owned operations such as its key e-commerce website and the Ring doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, with further notifications of issues using the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring customers used online platforms to complain their doorbells were not working.

Just within Britain, reports of disruptions on specific apps totaled the many thousands for each platform.

Amazon reported that the problem originated in the eastern region of the America at AWS, a section that offers crucial online infrastructure for many companies, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global cloud computing system.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “increased failure rates and delays” for the cloud services in a zone on the east coast of the America. The widespread consequence appeared to hit services around the world, with the outage tracking website reporting problems with the corresponding services in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on web disruptions, also reported a surge in issues on that morning, and numerous instances located in the Virginia area, the site of the eastern US data center where officials confirmed the problems began.