Major Internet Disruption Affects Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

A widespread internet outage has disrupted numerous sites and apps around the world, and users noting troubles connecting to the web following issues at the cloud computing service.

The disrupted platforms comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-operated platforms like its main retail platform and the Ring home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its branches Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of issues accessing the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring customers turned to social media to complain their security devices were malfunctioning.

In the UK alone, accounts of disruptions on individual applications ran into the many thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the issue began in the Atlantic coast of the America at Amazon Web Services, a division that supplies crucial internet framework for many firms, who lease capacity on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest web hosting service.

Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “higher error rates and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact seemed to hit platforms around the world, and the Downdetector site reporting outages with the same sites in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks online failures, additionally noted a rise in problems on Monday morning, with many of them found in the Virginia area, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the issues began.