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Major media websites go down worldwide after brief outage at cloud service company
- Websites including CNN, BBC, The Guardian, Bloomberg News, The Financial Times and Le Monde are back online
- The outage appears to have been linked to a glitch at US-based provider Fastly
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Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe gradually came 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, BBC, 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 around an hour.
Fastly, one of the world’s most widely-used cloud-based content delivery network providers, said it reported a disruption from a “service configuration” and did not explain.
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“Incidents like this underline the fragility of the internet and its independence on a patchwork of fragmented technology. Ironically, this also underlines its inherent strength and how quickly it can recover,” Ben Wood, chief analyst at CCS Insight said.
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