06/08/2021

Websites Rumble Back to Life after Fastly-linked Outage

The outage lasted for an hour

Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after being hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc.

High traffic sites including Amazon, CNN, The New York Times, Reddit, Paypal, Spotify and Al Jazeera Media Network were out of commission, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. They came back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to around an hour.

Fastly, one of the world's most widely-used cloud based content delivery network providers, said "the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return."

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