Fastly, content delivery network, at the centre of global internet outage

Several popular websites, including BBC, New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify faced an outage for a brief period on Tuesday. This glitch is believed to be caused by an outage at data centre Fastly, a popular Content Delivery Network (CDN) provider. Fastly has confirmed the issue on its status website.

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“We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” the firm said. The firm is offering the status of the fixes being done in minute-by-minute updates.

At 4.16 pm IST, Fastly posted an update on its status page:

“Identified – The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Jun 8, 10:44 UTC. What’s possible now is a bunch of sites will suffer from a second outage due to lack of caching as their application servers have to suddenly catch up.”

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Most websites are now up and running after a brief outage.