Major Internet Failure Hits Many Online Platforms and Mobile Apps

A large-scale web failure has impacted many sites and apps globally, as users experiencing issues accessing the internet following issues at the cloud computing platform.

The disrupted apps include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to several Amazon-owned platforms including its primary shopping site and the Ring home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted as well as its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of difficulties reaching the the tax authority website on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, many Ring customers used social media to report their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on particular apps totaled the thousands for each platform.

Amazon reported that the issue originated in the east coast of the United States at AWS, a section that supplies essential web framework for numerous companies, who rent out space on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global cloud computing service.

Just after late night (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), the company announced “increased problem frequencies and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact appeared to disrupt apps worldwide, with the outage tracking website reporting problems with the corresponding services in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that tracks web disruptions, further indicated a increase in problems on the start of the week, with many of them situated in Virginia, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the outage started.