Significant Web Outage Hits Many Online Platforms and Apps
A widespread web outage has affected dozens websites and applications around the world, and users reporting troubles accessing the internet following issues at the online infrastructure system.
The impacted services comprise Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-owned services including its key e-commerce site and the Ring home security firm.
In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was affected along with its branches Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of issues reaching the HMRC online portal on Monday morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring device owners took to online platforms to report their home gadgets were not working.
Solely in the United Kingdom, accounts of issues on specific apps totaled the tens of thousands for every service.
Officials confirmed that the outage originated in the east coast of the America at AWS, a unit that supplies essential online framework for many firms, who rent out capacity on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global web hosting platform.
Shortly after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “elevated error rates and slowdowns” for AWS services in a area on the east coast of the America. The widespread consequence appeared to hit apps around the world, and the problem monitoring service reporting outages with the identical platforms in different parts of the world.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks web disruptions, further indicated a rise in outages on the start of the week, with many of them found in the Virginia area, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the outage originated.
