Significant Online Disruption Hits Many Websites and Apps

An extensive web outage has disrupted dozens sites and apps worldwide, with users experiencing troubles getting online after problems at the cloud computing system.

The impacted platforms include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-managed operations such as its main retail platform and the Ring security home security firm.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was impacted as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of problems reaching the the tax authority site on Monday morning. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring users took to online platforms to complain their doorbells were failing.

Just within Britain, accounts of problems on specific applications reached the many thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the issue started in the Atlantic coast of the America at Amazon Web Services, a unit that supplies vital online backbone for many businesses, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing service.

Just after late night (PDT) in the America (8am BST), Amazon confirmed “elevated failure rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a zone on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect appeared to affect services worldwide, with the Downdetector site reporting outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks online failures, additionally noted a surge in problems on the start of the week, including several cases situated in the state of Virginia, the location of the eastern US data center where the company stated the problems began.