Fastly outage shows just how exposed the world’s biggest websites are to disruptions
The company explains a valid software configuration was change by one of its customers triggered a previously undiscovered bug
09 June 2021 - 17:08
The hour-long Fastly outage was a reminder of how exposed the world’s biggest websites are to the impact of disruptions ranging from simple human error to coordinated cyberattack.
The failure at Fastly, which helps websites load their pages faster, sent vast swathes of the web offline on Tuesday. News websites including CNN, the New York Times and Bloomberg News, services such as Amazon.com, Shopify and Stripe, plus sites as large as Spotify and Reddit all went offline. UK government digital services were also unavailable for a period...
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