Major websites experience outages, including the New York Times, CNN and Amazon Web Services
Posted on AllSides June 8th, 2021
From The Left
A massive outage struck large swaths of the Internet early Tuesday, causing the New York Times, CNN, BBC, Amazon, Hulu and other high-traffic websites and platforms to temporarily shut down.
The problems appear related to San Francisco-based cloud computing services provider Fastly, which said in a status update just before 7 a.m. Eastern time, that the “issue has been identified and a fix has been applied.” It remains unclear what caused the outage, which was largely resolved within an hour.
News outlets affected by the outage include BBC, the Guardian, Bloomberg News,...
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