Major Internet Disruption Impacts Many Sites and Applications

A large-scale online disruption has disrupted numerous sites and apps worldwide, and users noting troubles getting online following issues at the cloud computing platform.

The impacted apps include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-operated services such as its main retail site and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was impacted in addition to its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were further notifications of issues using the the tax authority online portal on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, several Ring device owners used social media to report their security devices were malfunctioning.

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

Amazon reported that the issue started in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a section that provides essential internet infrastructure for a host of firms, who rent out capacity on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global cloud computing platform.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), the company announced “elevated problem frequencies and slowdowns” for AWS services in a area on the eastern US of the America. The widespread consequence seemed to disrupt apps globally, with the outage tracking website reporting outages with the identical platforms in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors web disruptions, also reported a increase in problems on Monday morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the problems started.