Significant Internet Disruption Hits Dozens Sites and Mobile Apps

An extensive internet disruption has affected dozens sites and apps worldwide, as users noting problems accessing the internet after problems at Amazon’s web hosting service.

The affected services include Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-owned services including its primary shopping website and the Ring doorbell home security firm.

In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and further notifications of problems using the HM Revenue and Customs site on that morning. Also in the UK, multiple Ring customers turned to social media to complain their doorbells were malfunctioning.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of disruptions on specific platforms reached the thousands for every service.

The company stated that the issue began in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a unit that provides crucial internet framework for numerous companies, who utilize resources on Amazon servers. AWS is the most extensive cloud computing platform.

Soon after the start of the day (PDT) in the America (8am BST), the company announced “increased error rates and latencies” for Amazon's platforms in a zone on the east coast of the US. The cascading impact seemed to affect services globally, and the Downdetector site indicating issues with the same sites in multiple continents.

Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks web disruptions, also reported a increase in problems on Monday morning, including several cases located in the Virginia area, the location of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the outage began.