Multiple outages hit socialmedia, government, and newswebsites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
High-trafficwebsites including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, and the New York Times were listed as experiencing problems by outage trackingwebsiteDowndetector.com, although several appeared to be coming back up.
The United Kingdom’s attorney general tweeted that the country’s main gov.ukwebsitewasdown, providing an email for queries.
Fastly, one of the world’s most widely-used content delivery network providers, said “the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. …
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