Major Web Outage Affects Many Sites and Mobile Apps
A widespread web failure has affected dozens websites and applications worldwide, as users noting problems accessing the internet following issues at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.
The impacted services encompass the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-operated operations including its main retail platform and the Ring security device manufacturer.
Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected as well as its branches Halifax and the Scottish bank, and further notifications of problems accessing the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, many Ring device owners took to social media to report their home gadgets were malfunctioning.
In the UK alone, reports of issues on particular applications ran into the thousands for each app.
Officials confirmed that the outage began in the Atlantic coast of the United States at the cloud division, a section that provides crucial online backbone for many firms, who utilize capacity on Amazon servers. The cloud platform is the most extensive cloud computing system.
Shortly after the start of the day (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “increased failure rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a region on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The cascading impact seemed to hit services around the world, with the outage tracking website indicating problems with the same sites in multiple continents.
The monitoring service Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks web disruptions, also reported a increase in outages on that morning, including several cases situated in the Virginia area, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the issues originated.
