Single Fastly Customer Sparked Global Internet Meltdown
Yesterday’s wide-scale internet outage was triggered when a single Fastly customer changed their settings, it has emerged. The problem took place on Tuesday June 8, when Fastly, a cloud computing services company, experienced a bug on its content delivery network (CDN). This led to several major websites, including Amazon, Reddit, The Guardian and New York Times being forced offline for 30-40 minutes from around 11am. Additionally, specific sections of other services were affected by the failure….
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