Major Online Disruption Impacts Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

A large-scale internet disruption has impacted many websites and apps around the world, with users noting problems connecting to the web following issues at the online infrastructure service.

The disrupted platforms encompass the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-operated services including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell device manufacturer.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected as well as its affiliates the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, with further notifications of issues using the HM Revenue and Customs website on the start of the week. Also in the UK, many Ring users used networks to report their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, accounts of issues on particular apps reached the many thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the issue originated in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a division that provides crucial internet backbone for a host of firms, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive web hosting system.

Just after late night (PDT) in the United States (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “elevated problem frequencies and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the eastern US of the America. The ripple effect seemed to disrupt platforms around the world, and the problem monitoring service reporting outages with the same sites in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors online failures, additionally noted a surge in outages on that morning, with many of them found in the state of Virginia, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the problems originated.