Major Online Outage Impacts Numerous Websites and Mobile Apps

An extensive web outage has affected many websites and applications around the world, and users reporting problems connecting to the web due to difficulties at the web hosting system.

The disrupted services encompass Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-owned operations like its key e-commerce site and the Ring security home security firm.

In the UK, Lloyds bank was disrupted in addition to its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and also reports of problems using the HM Revenue and Customs website on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring customers turned to social media to report their doorbells were failing.

In the UK alone, reports of problems on individual platforms reached the thousands for each app.

The company stated that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the US at the cloud division, a section that provides crucial online backbone for a host of businesses, who lease resources on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive online services system.

Soon after late night (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “elevated error rates and latencies” for AWS services in a region on the east coast of the United States. The ripple effect seemed to hit services worldwide, with the problem monitoring service showing outages with the corresponding services in multiple continents.

The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks internet outages, further indicated a increase in problems on Monday morning, and numerous instances situated in the state of Virginia, the region of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the outage originated.