Substantial Online Failure Hits Numerous Sites and Apps
A large-scale web outage has affected dozens websites and mobile apps worldwide, and users reporting problems getting online following issues at Amazon’s online infrastructure platform.
The affected platforms include Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-managed operations like its key e-commerce website and the Ring security device manufacturer.
In the UK, Lloyds bank was affected in addition to its subsidiaries Halifax and the Scottish bank, while there were also reports of issues reaching the HMRC site on the start of the week. Also in the UK, several Ring device owners used social media to state their home gadgets were failing.
In the UK alone, reports of problems on specific applications reached the tens of thousands for every service.
Amazon reported that the outage originated in the eastern region of the United States at AWS, a unit that provides essential internet backbone for a host of companies, who lease capacity on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the biggest global cloud computing service.
Just after midnight (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), the company announced “elevated problem frequencies and latencies” for AWS services in a zone on the east coast of the America. The widespread consequence seemed to disrupt services worldwide, and the problem monitoring service showing problems with the identical platforms in multiple continents.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors online failures, additionally noted a increase in outages on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in the state of Virginia, the site of Amazon’s US-East-1 region where officials confirmed the issues began.
