Major websites go down worldwide, including Reddit and Quora. The internet is
suffering from a major outage today that has been hitting users across the
world. If you're trying to access your bank accounts or any other important
site or service that is down, it's best to wait until it has come back up
again before trying this step.
This could be a sign of what's in store for future internet incidents, as the world continues to rely on more and more web services every day.
Users around the world have been hit with issues with all their web-based
services today, including those of the New York Times, Guardian, Amazon,
and Twitch . The outage has affected websites of many other companies
as well.
The Guardian's website is down entirely, so this thread is now our formal liveblog for the Fastly outage.
— alex hern (@alexhern) June 8, 2021
Fastly, a cloud computing services provider, has been identified as the cause of the problem. The company runs an "edge cloud", which is designed to speed up loading times for websites, protect them from denial-of-service attacks, and help them deal with bursts of traffic.
— alex hern (@alexhern) June 8, 2021
In an error message posted at 10:58 UK time, Fastly said: "We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services." The company has not yet not responded to a request for comment from the Guardian.
— alex hern (@alexhern) June 8, 2021