Major Web Disruption Impacts Many Sites and Applications

A large-scale internet outage has affected dozens sites and apps worldwide, and users experiencing troubles connecting to the web following issues at the online infrastructure platform.

The affected apps include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-managed services such as its primary shopping platform and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and additional accounts of problems using the the tax authority site on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring users took to networks to complain their home gadgets were failing.

In the UK alone, reports of disruptions on particular applications ran into the tens of thousands for each platform.

The company stated that the outage originated in the Atlantic coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a unit that supplies crucial internet backbone for many companies, who utilize space on the company's servers. AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing platform.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the America (8am BST), Amazon confirmed “increased error rates and latencies” for the cloud services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The ripple effect was seen to hit apps around the world, and the Downdetector site reporting issues with the corresponding services in different parts of the world.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a service that monitors internet outages, additionally noted a increase in problems on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in Virginia, the location of the eastern US data center where officials confirmed the outage began.