Major Online Disruption Affects Many Online Platforms and Mobile Apps

A large-scale online disruption has disrupted dozens online platforms and mobile apps around the world, with users reporting troubles getting online due to difficulties at Amazon’s cloud computing service.

The impacted services include the social media app Snapchat, Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and Duolingo, along with multiple Amazon-owned services such as its main retail site and the Ring doorbell device manufacturer.

Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted as well as its branches Halifax and Bank of Scotland, and also reports of issues accessing the HM Revenue and Customs website on the start of the week. Additionally in Britain, many Ring customers turned to social media to state their home gadgets were not working.

Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of problems on specific apps totaled the many thousands for every service.

Officials confirmed that the issue started in the east coast of the America at the cloud division, a section that supplies vital internet backbone for numerous businesses, who rent out space on the company's servers. The cloud platform is the most extensive online services system.

Shortly after midnight (PDT) in the America (morning UK time), Amazon confirmed “higher problem frequencies and delays” for the cloud services in a region on the east coast of the US. The cascading impact seemed to hit platforms worldwide, with the Downdetector site showing problems with the same sites in multiple continents.

The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors internet outages, also reported a increase in problems on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in Virginia, the location of the eastern US data center where the company stated the problems originated.