Substantial Web Disruption Affects Many Online Platforms and Mobile Apps

A large-scale web outage has impacted many websites and applications around the world, as users experiencing issues getting online due to difficulties at the web hosting platform.

The impacted apps encompass Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned platforms like its key e-commerce site and the Ring security device manufacturer.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted as well as its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of problems reaching the HM Revenue and Customs site on that morning. Also in the UK, many Ring users used networks to state their doorbells were not working.

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

The company stated that the issue began in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a division that supplies essential online backbone for a host of firms, who utilize resources on the company's servers. AWS is the biggest global web hosting system.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “elevated problem frequencies and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the east coast of the United States. The cascading impact seemed to affect services around the world, with the Downdetector site showing outages with the corresponding services in various regions.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors online failures, also reported a increase in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the site of the eastern US data center where the company stated the problems started.