A widespread internet outage has affected dozens online platforms and applications globally, with users noting issues connecting to the web following issues at the cloud computing platform.
The disrupted services comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-operated operations like its primary shopping website and the Ring security home security firm.
Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was disrupted in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of problems reaching the HMRC online portal on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring customers used networks to state their home gadgets were failing.
In the UK alone, reports of problems on particular applications reached the thousands for each app.
Amazon reported that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the US at AWS, a unit that provides essential web framework for a host of firms, who rent out capacity on AWS infrastructure. AWS is the biggest global cloud computing service.
Soon after late night (PDT) in the United States (8am BST), the company announced “elevated failure rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the America. The cascading impact was seen to hit services globally, and the problem monitoring service showing outages with the same sites in multiple continents.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks online failures, additionally noted a rise in issues on Monday morning, including several cases found in the Virginia area, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the outage originated.
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