Major Online Disruption Hits Dozens Sites and Apps
A large-scale online outage has impacted many online platforms and mobile apps around the world, as users reporting problems accessing the internet following issues at the cloud computing system.
The affected platforms include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, as well as multiple Amazon-operated services including its key e-commerce platform and the Ring security home security firm.
Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted as well as its subsidiaries the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of problems accessing the HM Revenue and Customs website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring users took to social media to state their home gadgets were failing.
Just within Britain, notifications of problems on particular platforms reached the tens of thousands for each app.
The company stated that the issue started in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a section that supplies vital internet backbone for a host of companies, who rent out space on AWS infrastructure. AWS is the world’s largest web hosting platform.
Just after midnight (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “increased error rates and delays” for the cloud services in a area on the eastern US of the America. The widespread consequence was seen to hit platforms around the world, with the problem monitoring service reporting outages with the identical platforms in multiple continents.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a service that tracks internet outages, also reported a increase in issues on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in the Virginia area, the region of the eastern US data center where officials confirmed the outage started.
