Major Web Outage Hits Numerous Websites and Applications

A large-scale internet outage has impacted dozens sites and applications around the world, and users reporting troubles getting online due to difficulties at the web hosting system.

The disrupted platforms include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to multiple Amazon-managed platforms including its main retail platform and the Ring security doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and additional accounts of problems accessing the HMRC site on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring users used social media to state their doorbells were failing.

Just within Britain, notifications of problems on specific apps ran into the tens of thousands for every service.

Officials confirmed that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a section that provides crucial online infrastructure for many companies, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. AWS is the biggest global web hosting platform.

Just after midnight (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “higher problem frequencies and delays” for the cloud services in a area on the eastern US of the United States. The cascading impact seemed to disrupt services worldwide, with the Downdetector site reporting issues with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors web disruptions, also reported a increase in issues on Monday morning, and numerous instances situated in the Virginia area, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the outage began.