{"id":92988,"date":"2025-10-20T17:12:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/92988\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T17:12:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:12:12","slug":"internet-outages-at-hmrc-zoom-and-snapchat-reported-after-aws-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/92988\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet outages at HMRC, Zoom and Snapchat reported after AWS disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disruption affecting Amazon Web Services has led to a spike in reported outages across a wide range of internet services including for HMRC, Zoom and Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Downdetector, a website which tracks complaints about online services, showed a spike in reports on Monday morning, including more than 2,681 at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 500 reports of issues for the HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) website by 9am.<\/p>\n<p>Other services showing a spike in reported outages included Slack, Ring, Vodafone, Signal, Halifax, BT, EE and Sky.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"487\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/img.resized.co\/breaking-news\/eyJkYXRhIjoie1widXJsXCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL2ltYWdlLmFzc2V0cy5wcmVzc2Fzc29jaWF0aW9uLmlvXFxcL3YyXFxcL2ltYWdlXFxcL3Byb2R1Y3Rpb25cXFwvYWIxYTc1NDZhYjIxZTg4MzUzM2E3NTBjNjZkMjQwNWZZMjl1ZEdWdWRITmxZWEpqYUdGd2FTd3hOell4TURNMk5qWTBcXFwvMi44MjA3NzEzNi5qcGc_dz02NDBcIixcIndpZHRoXCI6XCI2NDBcIixcImhlaWdodFwiOlwiNDg3XCIsXCJkZWZhdWx0XCI6XCJodHRwczpcXFwvXFxcL3d3dy5icmVha2luZ25ld3MuaWVcXFwvaVxcXC9ibi1ub2ltYWdlLnBuZ1wiLFwib3B0aW9uc1wiOntcIm91dHB1dFwiOlwiYXZpZlwiLFwicXVhbGl0eVwiOlwiNTVcIn19IiwiaGFzaCI6IjYyNzgwYTE4MTI3YTYyYzM4YWYxZWEwOTY2NGUxMjA4MGEzMzk3YTkifQ==\/internet-outages-at-hmrc-zoom-and-snapchat-reported-after-aws-disruption.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"A screenshot of a Halifax website with an error message \" data-title=\"\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Media\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Media\" data-credit=\"Halifax\" data-usage-terms=\"PICTURE DESK USE ONLY. HANDOUT. NO SALES.\"\/>A screenshot of a Halifax website with an error message (PA)<\/p>\n<p>A service health update by AWS posted at 7.51am on Monday said: \u201cWe can confirm increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS Services in the US-EAST-1 Region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis issue may also be affecting Case Creation through the AWS Support Center or the Support API.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are actively engaged and working to both mitigate the issue and understand root cause.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The update said its Amazon DynamoDB database service had been \u201cdisrupted\u201d and 20 other services had been \u201cimpacted\u201d including Amazon CloudFront, AWS Config and AWS Security Token Service.<\/p>\n<p>AWS is the world\u2019s largest cloud computing provider and offers a wide variety of services, including storage, databases, machine learning, and security tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disruption affecting Amazon Web Services has led to a spike in reported outages across a wide range of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[61,206,60,80],"class_list":["post-92988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-ie","tag-internet","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}