Major Web Failure Affects Many Websites and Applications

A widespread web outage has impacted dozens websites and mobile apps around the world, with users reporting issues getting online following issues at Amazon’s web hosting system.

The impacted platforms comprise the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-owned services such as its main retail platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted as well as its affiliates Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were further notifications of problems using the the tax authority site on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring device owners turned to networks to report their security devices were not working.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on particular platforms ran into the thousands for each platform.

Amazon reported that the outage began in the east coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a unit that offers essential online framework for numerous businesses, who utilize capacity on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global online services platform.

Just after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), the company announced “increased failure rates and delays” for AWS services in a area on the east coast of the US. The ripple effect appeared to disrupt services around the world, and the problem monitoring service reporting outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors online failures, additionally noted a increase in outages on the start of the week, with many of them situated in Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where AWS said the problems began.