Substantial Internet Disruption Hits Dozens Sites and Apps

An extensive online disruption has affected dozens websites and apps worldwide, as users noting problems connecting to the web due to difficulties at Amazon’s online infrastructure platform.

The affected services encompass Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, along with a host of Amazon-managed services such as its primary shopping site and the Ring doorbell device manufacturer.

Across the United Kingdom, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted as well as its branches the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were additional accounts of problems reaching the HMRC website on that morning. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring device owners turned to online platforms to report their security devices were failing.

In the UK alone, accounts of issues on individual applications totaled the thousands for each app.

Officials confirmed that the issue originated in the eastern region of the US at Amazon Web Services, a section that offers essential web backbone for many companies, who rent out space on AWS infrastructure. Amazon Web Services is the world’s largest web hosting system.

Just after the start of the day (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), officials reported “elevated failure rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a area on the Atlantic seaboard of the US. The widespread consequence was seen to affect platforms worldwide, and the Downdetector site reporting problems with the corresponding services in different parts of the world.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors web disruptions, additionally noted a increase in problems on the start of the week, including several cases located in Virginia, the site of the eastern US data center where AWS said the outage started.

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