Major Online Outage Affects Many Online Platforms and Apps
A large-scale online disruption has affected numerous online platforms and applications globally, as users noting issues accessing the internet due to difficulties at the web hosting service.
The impacted platforms include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-owned operations such as its primary shopping website and the Ring doorbell home security firm.
Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was disrupted along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were also reports of issues accessing the the tax authority site on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring users turned to social media to report their doorbells were not working.
Just within Britain, accounts of issues on individual apps totaled the many thousands for each app.
Amazon reported that the problem originated in the Atlantic coast of the US at AWS, a section that provides vital internet framework for numerous firms, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global cloud computing service.
Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), the company announced “elevated error rates and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the east coast of the United States. The widespread consequence appeared to affect apps globally, with the Downdetector site indicating problems with the same sites in various regions.
Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a rise in outages on the start of the week, with many of them situated in the Virginia area, the region of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where the company stated the issues started.
