Substantial Online Failure Impacts Numerous Sites and Applications
An extensive internet outage has affected dozens sites and apps worldwide, as users reporting issues connecting to the web following issues at the web hosting system.
The affected platforms include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, along with several Amazon-owned platforms including its primary shopping site and the Ring doorbell home security firm.
Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of issues accessing the HM Revenue and Customs website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, several Ring customers turned to networks to report their security devices were malfunctioning.
Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of problems on individual apps ran into the thousands for each platform.
Officials confirmed that the problem began in the Atlantic coast of the US at Amazon Web Services, a unit that supplies vital web backbone for numerous companies, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive cloud computing service.
Just after midnight (PDT) in the America (8am BST), Amazon confirmed “higher failure rates and latencies” for AWS services in a zone on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The widespread consequence seemed to disrupt services around the world, with the problem monitoring service reporting issues with the same sites in multiple continents.
The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that reports on internet outages, further indicated a rise in outages on Monday morning, with many of them situated in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the issues started.
