An extensive online outage has affected many websites and applications globally, as users experiencing issues accessing the internet due to difficulties at Amazon’s web hosting service.
The affected platforms include Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, and Duolingo, in addition to a host of Amazon-managed platforms such as its main retail platform and the Ring device manufacturer.
Throughout Britain, Lloyds bank was disrupted as well as its branches the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were further notifications of problems reaching the HM Revenue and Customs online portal on the start of the week. Furthermore across the UK, several Ring users turned to networks to complain their home gadgets were malfunctioning.
Just within Britain, reports of disruptions on specific platforms ran into the many thousands for each app.
Officials confirmed that the problem originated in the eastern region of the United States at the cloud division, a unit that supplies crucial web framework for a host of companies, who utilize resources on Amazon servers. The cloud platform is the most extensive cloud computing service.
Just after late night (PDT) in the United States (8 in the morning BST), officials reported “elevated problem frequencies and slowdowns” for Amazon's platforms in a area on the east coast of the America. The ripple effect seemed to disrupt services globally, with the outage tracking website reporting outages with the corresponding services in multiple continents.
The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a platform that monitors web disruptions, also reported a surge in issues on the start of the week, and numerous instances found in the state of Virginia, the location of the AWS US-East-1 zone where the company stated the outage began.
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