Significant Online Outage Affects Dozens Sites and Mobile Apps

A widespread internet outage has disrupted dozens websites and applications around the world, as users reporting troubles accessing the internet due to difficulties at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The impacted services comprise Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-operated platforms such as its primary shopping site and the Ring device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted as well as its branches Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of difficulties accessing the HMRC website on that morning. Also in the UK, several Ring device owners turned to online platforms to complain their doorbells were malfunctioning.

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

Officials confirmed that the problem started in the Atlantic coast of the US at the cloud division, a section that provides crucial web infrastructure for many firms, who lease resources on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the most extensive cloud computing system.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), officials reported “elevated problem frequencies and delays” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the east coast of the United States. The ripple effect was seen to hit services globally, with the Downdetector site indicating issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on internet outages, also reported a surge in problems on Monday morning, including several cases found in Virginia, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the outage started.