Websites across the world hit by outage linked to Fastly
US-based cloud company says the issue has been identified and a fix applied
08 June 2021 - 18:27
Bangalore — Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after being hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly.
High traffic sites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, PayPal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network and the New York Times were out of commission, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. They came back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to about an hour...
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