đ Share this article Significant Internet Disruption Affects Many Websites and Apps A widespread web outage has affected many sites and mobile apps around the world, and users reporting issues connecting to the web after problems at the web hosting service. The affected apps comprise the social media app Snapchat, the gaming platform Roblox, the messaging service Signal, and the language learning app Duolingo, along with several Amazon-managed services like its key e-commerce site and the Ring security device manufacturer. In the UK, the financial institution Lloyds was impacted along with its affiliates the bank Halifax and Bank of Scotland, while there were additional accounts of issues reaching the the tax authority website on Monday morning. Additionally in Britain, many Ring device owners turned to networks to state their home gadgets were malfunctioning. Solely in the United Kingdom, notifications of issues on individual apps ran into the thousands for each app. The company stated that the issue began in the east coast of the United States at Amazon Web Services, a unit that offers vital web framework for a host of businesses, who lease space on the company's servers. Amazon Web Services is the most extensive online services system. Soon after midnight (PDT) in the US (morning UK time), the company announced âhigher failure rates and latenciesâ for Amazon's platforms in a region on the eastern US of the United States. The ripple effect appeared to disrupt platforms globally, and the problem monitoring service reporting issues with the identical platforms in multiple continents. The outage tracker Thousand Eyes, a tool that monitors online failures, further indicated a surge in issues on Monday morning, with many of them situated in Virginia, the region of Amazonâs US-East-1 region where AWS said the outage originated.