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Title    Websites Begin to Work Again After Major Breakage
Date    Tuesday June 08 2021, @02:39PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=21/06/08/1247223

upstart writes:

Websites begin to work again after major breakage:

A major outage has affected a number of major websites including Amazon, Reddit and Twitch.

The UK government website - gov.uk - was also down as were the Financial Times, the Guardian and the New York Times.

Cloud computing provider Fastly, which underpins a lot of major websites, said it was behind the problems.

The firm said there were issues with its global content delivery network (CDN) and was implementing a fix.

In a statement, it said: "We identified a service configuration that triggered disruption across our POPs (points of presence) globally and have disabled that configuration.

"Our global network is coming back online."

[...] Fastly runs what is known as an "edge cloud", which is designed to speed up loading times for websites, as well as protect them from denial-of-service attacks and help them when traffic is peaking.

It currently looks as if the problems were localised, meaning specific locations across Europe and the US were affected.

Also at c|net


Original Submission

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  1. "upstart" - https://soylentnews.org/~upstart/
  2. "Websites begin to work again after major breakage" - https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-57399628
  3. "c|net" - https://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-fastly-and-why-did-its-outage-just-break-amazon-reddit-twitch-and-much-of-the-internet/
  4. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=49160

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