Substantial Online Disruption Affects Many Websites and Apps

A widespread online outage has disrupted many websites and mobile apps worldwide, and users experiencing problems getting online following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing system.

The disrupted services encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-managed services such as its key e-commerce platform and the Ring doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its branches Halifax and the Scottish bank, with additional accounts of issues reaching the HMRC website on that morning. Also in the UK, many Ring device owners turned to online platforms to state their home gadgets were malfunctioning.

Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of issues on specific apps ran into the thousands for each app.

Amazon reported that the outage originated in the Atlantic coast of the America at the cloud division, a division that provides crucial internet infrastructure for numerous businesses, who lease resources on the company's servers. AWS is the biggest global web hosting platform.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the America (8am BST), officials reported “higher error rates and delays” for AWS services in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The cascading impact was seen to affect apps globally, with the outage tracking website reporting outages with the identical platforms in various regions.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors web disruptions, further indicated a surge in outages on Monday morning, with many of them found in the Virginia area, the location of the eastern US data center where AWS said the outage started.