Significant Internet Disruption Impacts Numerous Online Platforms and Apps

A large-scale internet failure has disrupted dozens sites and apps worldwide, with users noting troubles getting online due to difficulties at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.

The impacted platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-managed operations such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring security doorbell company.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was disrupted in addition to its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of issues accessing the the tax authority online portal on Monday morning. Also in the UK, several Ring device owners took to social media to report their doorbells were failing.

Just within Britain, reports of disruptions on individual apps ran into the many thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the US at Amazon Web Services, a section that supplies crucial online infrastructure for a host of firms, who lease resources on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global cloud computing system.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “higher problem frequencies and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the United States. The cascading impact seemed to hit apps worldwide, and the Downdetector site indicating problems with the corresponding services in various regions.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a rise in issues on Monday morning, including several cases found in Virginia, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the issues began.