Significant Web Failure Impacts Numerous Websites and Applications

An extensive web failure has disrupted many websites and applications worldwide, and users reporting issues getting online following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The impacted services comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as a host of Amazon-owned services including its key e-commerce site and the Ring doorbell company.

Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its affiliates Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were further notifications of issues reaching the HM Revenue and Customs site on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, many Ring users turned to networks to complain their security devices were failing.

Solely in the United Kingdom, reports of issues on specific platforms totaled the tens of thousands for every service.

Amazon reported that the outage started in the eastern region of the America at AWS, a unit that offers vital internet backbone for many businesses, who lease resources on the company's servers. AWS is the most extensive web hosting service.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8 in the morning BST), Amazon confirmed “increased problem frequencies and delays” for AWS services in a region on the eastern US of the America. The widespread consequence was seen to hit services worldwide, and the outage tracking website indicating outages with the same sites in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that reports on online failures, further indicated a rise in issues on Monday morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the problems started.