Significant Internet Failure Affects Many Sites and Applications

A widespread internet failure has affected dozens sites and applications worldwide, and users noting troubles getting online after problems at the cloud computing system.

The disrupted apps include the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-owned services including its key e-commerce site and the Ring home security firm.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted in addition to its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, with also reports of issues accessing the HM Revenue and Customs website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring users turned to social media to complain their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, notifications of disruptions on specific applications totaled the thousands for every service.

The company stated that the issue originated in the Atlantic coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a unit that supplies vital web framework for numerous companies, who utilize space on AWS infrastructure. AWS is the biggest global cloud computing system.

Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (8am BST), officials reported “higher failure rates and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the east coast of the United States. The ripple effect was seen to disrupt apps globally, with the Downdetector site indicating outages with the identical platforms in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks internet outages, further indicated a surge in problems on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the issues began.