Significant Web Outage Hits Many Sites and Applications
An extensive online disruption has impacted numerous sites and apps worldwide, as users noting troubles connecting to the web following issues at the cloud computing platform.
The impacted platforms encompass Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, as well as several Amazon-operated operations including its primary shopping website and the Ring doorbell company.
Throughout Britain, the financial institution Lloyds was affected along with its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and the Scottish bank, and additional accounts of difficulties using the HMRC website on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, multiple Ring customers took to social media to report their security devices were malfunctioning.
In the UK alone, reports of issues on specific apps totaled the many thousands for each app.
The company stated that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the US at AWS, a division that offers essential internet backbone for many businesses, who utilize capacity on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the biggest global cloud computing system.
Just after late night (PDT) in the US (8am BST), the company announced “elevated failure rates and delays” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the eastern US of the US. The cascading impact seemed to affect apps worldwide, and the outage tracking website reporting problems with the identical platforms in various regions.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors internet outages, further indicated a surge in outages on that morning, with many of them located in the state of Virginia, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where officials confirmed the issues started.
