Internet Outages Hit Globally Due to Fastly Outage

Major Content Delivery Network Experiences Technical Difficulties

Widespread Disruptions Reported

A major outage at Fastly, a leading content delivery network (CDN), has caused widespread internet disruptions across the globe. The outage began on Tuesday, June 8th, and affected numerous websites and apps, including those of popular online services such as Amazon, Reddit, and the New York Times.

Fastly provides services that help accelerate the delivery of content to users by caching data closer to their location. The outage has resulted in slow loading times, errors, and complete inaccessibility for many websites and apps.

The Internet Outages Map, which tracks internet health globally, has reported a sharp increase in the frequency of outages in the past 24 hours. CloudflareRadar, a Twitter account that provides live updates on internet issues, has also reported widespread disruptions.

Fastly has acknowledged the outage and is currently working to resolve the issue. It is unclear at this time when the services will be fully restored. The outage highlights the critical role that CDNs play in the modern internet infrastructure and the potential consequences of disruptions to these services.