Websites back online after Fastly-linked glitch takes down internet
(VOVWORLD) - A range of websites including popular news outlets, ecommerce giants and governmental websites have come back online following an unexplained internet outage linked to US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Websites operated by news outlets including The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, the New York Times, Bloomberg News, CNN and Al Jazeera were sent offline across the globe on Tuesday evening.
Other high-traffic websites including Reddit, Amazon, Paypal, Twitch and Spotify were listed as having experienced problems by outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Fastly, one of the world's most widely-used cloud based content delivery network providers, said the issue had been identified and "a fix was applied" shortly after 8:30pm AEST.