Significant Online Failure Impacts Dozens Online Platforms and Applications
A widespread online failure has disrupted many websites and applications worldwide, and users noting problems accessing the internet after problems at Amazon’s cloud computing platform.
The impacted apps comprise the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with several Amazon-managed platforms like its main retail website and the Ring doorbell home security firm.
Across the United Kingdom, Lloyds bank was impacted in addition to its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were further notifications of difficulties using the the tax authority site on Monday morning. Also in the UK, many Ring users turned to online platforms to state their home gadgets were malfunctioning.
Just within Britain, notifications of disruptions on particular apps reached the many thousands for every service.
Officials confirmed that the outage started in the Atlantic coast of the America at AWS, a section that supplies vital internet backbone for a host of companies, who utilize resources on Amazon servers. AWS is the world’s largest cloud computing system.
Just after midnight (PDT) in the US (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “increased error rates and latencies” for AWS services in a region on the east coast of the US. The cascading impact appeared to affect platforms around the world, and the Downdetector site indicating issues with the corresponding services in various regions.
Cisco’s Thousand Eyes, a tool that tracks internet outages, also reported a rise in outages on Monday morning, and numerous instances located in the state of Virginia, the site of the AWS US-East-1 zone where AWS said the issues began.
