Many large websites went down Tuesday, including Amazon, Twitch, BBC, NYT, Spotify, Reddit, and FT, due to an issue at the Fastly CDN, which has now been fixed
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Discussion
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@fastly
@fastly
on x
We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at https://status.fastly.com/...
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@ap
@ap
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Fastly said: “The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.” A number of sites that were hit early appeared to be coming back online. https://apne.ws/jv3mi7a
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@jennelizabethj
@jennelizabethj
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Let's not centralize the internet so much, shall we? A blip this time, catastrophic next time. #internetdown https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
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@fabiochiusi
Fabio Chiusi
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“Despite speculation on social media that the outage was the result of a malicious attack, leading to the hashtag #cyberattack trending on Twitter, there is no evidence pointing to foul play” https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
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@kendilaniannbc
Ken Dilanian
on x
This just in: The internet is important to our daily lives. If this can happen by accident, imagine what an adversary could do. https://twitter.com/...
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@digiphile
Alex Howard
on x
Good morning! Content delivery networks (CDNs) closely resemble critical infrastructure in the 21st century for digital governments. @fastly told the @guardian a “configuration error” was at fault: https://www.theguardian.com/ ... “there is no evidence pointing to foul play”-@ale…
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@kjhealy
Kieran Healy
on x
The whole Internet loves Decentralized Packet Switching Network, a lovely topology with no central points of failure! *50 years later* We regret to inform you
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@journodave
David Wyllie
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excited to start my job as chief marketing officer of Fastly, with my pitched campaign of ‘everyone should know who we are and what we do’ time to sit down and take a big sip of cof
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@kevincollier
Kevin Collier
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The Verge is publishing through a live Google doc because fastly went down this morning, then this happened. Our whole online information infrastructure is so much more tenuous and ridiculous than we usually consider. https://twitter.com/...
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@jessicaelgot
Jessica Elgot
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Luckily WhatsApp is working, so Westminster and the government are still functioning
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@ap
@ap
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Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday after an apparent widespread at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government's home page, could not be reached. https://apne.ws/VlyKzjo
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@pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings
on x
We did it everyone, we finally ran out of internet
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@govuk
@govuk
on x
We are aware of the issues with https://gov.uk/ which means that users may not be able to access the site. This is a wider issue affecting a number of other non-government sites. We are investigating this as a matter of urgency.
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@rustybrick
Barry Schwartz
on x
Hey @johnmu - does GoogleBot go into special relax mode and take a bit of a vacation during these outages? https://twitter.com/...
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@rustybrick
Barry Schwartz
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CNN looking good https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
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@charlescwcooke
Charles C. W. Cooke
on x
There's really no point in having a distributed Internet if every major player is going to put their infrastructure behind the same proxy. https://techcrunch.com/...
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@iblametom
Thomas Brewster
on x
Thank the lord TechCrunch has survived https://twitter.com/...
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@brianstelter
Brian Stelter
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Regarding this morning's widespread website outages: “Typically an outage of this nature occurs when a vital internet infrastructure service faces an issue. An apparent glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, is thought to be the reason...” https://techcrunch.com/...
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@campuscodi
Catalin Cimpanu
on x
Major internet outage developing after Fastly went down earlier https://twitter.com/...
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@ruskin147
Rory Cellan-Jones
on x
Masses of sites down, including https://gov.uk/ and many news sites