Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday, including that of the New York Times, after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Source: AP
Social media, government and news websites across the globe hit by outages
June 8, 2021
A glitch at cloud service company Fastly is reportedly behind outages across social media, government and news websites across the globe.
Multiple outages have hit social media, government and news websites across the globe, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Some Australian news websites were among those affected, including Nine’s The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Financial Review.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites on Tuesday.
Fastly said it was investigating “the potential impact to performance with our CDN services”, according to its website.
Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “Degraded Performance”, the website showed.
Separately, Amazon.com’s retail website also seemed to be down. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.
Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2000 users reported problems with Amazon, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.
Amazon’s Twitch was also experiencing an outage, according to Downdetector’s website.
Websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, CNN, the BBC and Bloomberg News also faced outages.
