Latest major internet outage (June 2021)

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Financial Times, New York Times, Bloomberg News websites down

Multiple websites operated by news outlets including the Financial Times, the New York Times and Bloomberg News were down across the globe on Tuesday.

financialpost.com

Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage

The online world has received a lesson on how vital a small number of behind-the-scenes companies have become to running the internet.

apnews.com

Websites back online after Fastly-linked glitch takes down internet

Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online on Tuesday after getting hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to U.S.-based cloud company Fastly Inc (FSLY.N).

www.reuters.com

 

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July? A little premature perhaps?

 

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Woops!

 

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Dozens of big websites go down after Fastly outage

Major websites were taken offline in the wake of a mystery outage that affected large parts of the internet on Tuesday.

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

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A Big Chunk of the Internet Goes Offline Because of a Faulty CDN Provider - Slashdot

TechCrunch reports: Countless popular websites including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, Stripe, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC and Financial Times are currently facing an outage. A glitch at...

tech.slashdot.org

 

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Global internet outage blamed on software bug

Fastly, the cloud computing services provider behind the global internet outage experienced by a number of major websites on Tuesday, said the incident was caused by a software bug.Nick Rockwe…

thehill.com

 

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Airline and bank websites go down in another major internet failure

Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, banks and trading platforms suffered brief website outages after a key piece of internet infrastructure failed, sparking the second major interruption of the past 10 days.

edition.cnn.com

 

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Major Australian Banks, US Airlines Briefly Hit By Widespread Internet Outages - Slashdot

Websites of dozens of financial institutions and airlines in Australia and the United States were briefly down on Thursday, in the second major blackout in just over a week caused by a glitch in an important piece of internet infrastructure. From a report: Server-related glitches at content...

tech.slashdot.org

 

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And now in Decemeber 2021:

Amazon Says ‘Unexpected Behavior’ Caused Huge Cloud Outage

(Bloomberg) -- Amazon.com Inc. said automated processes in its cloud computing business caused cascading outages across the internet this week, affecting everything from Disney amusement parks and Netflix videos to robot vacuums and Adele ticket sales.Most Read from BloombergCan Indoor Farms...

finance.yahoo.com

 

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Two-Year Internet Outage In Ethiopia Continues - Slashdot

Zecharias Zelalem writes via Reuters: Few have been spared the effects of a nearly two-year internet and phone shutdown in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, which has been cut off since fighting erupted between Tigrayan rebels and government forces in November 2020. The conflict resumed last...

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