Major Internet Failure Affects Many Websites and Mobile Apps

An extensive internet disruption has affected numerous websites and applications worldwide, with users noting problems connecting to the web following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure service.

The disrupted platforms comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-owned services like its primary shopping site and the Ring security doorbell company.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with additional accounts of problems reaching the the tax authority online portal on that morning. Also in the UK, several Ring users took to networks to state their home gadgets were failing.

Just within Britain, reports of problems on individual applications reached the thousands for each app.

The company stated that the problem began in the eastern region of the US at Amazon Web Services, a section that offers crucial web framework for a host of companies, who lease capacity on AWS infrastructure. AWS is the most extensive web hosting platform.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), officials reported “elevated problem frequencies and delays” for AWS services in a area on the east coast of the United States. The ripple effect appeared to hit apps globally, with the outage tracking website indicating issues with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors web disruptions, further indicated a surge in issues on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the outage started.