{"id":238209,"date":"2025-10-20T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238209\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:02:08","slug":"internet-outages-at-hmrc-zoom-and-snapchat-reported-after-aws-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/238209\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet outages at HMRC, Zoom and Snapchat reported after AWS disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2.82077136.jpg\" 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":"Downdetector, a website which tracks complaints about online services, showed a spike in reports on Monday morning, including&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":["post-238209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-internet","tag-internet","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}