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09.06.2021 - 16:41 [ Cnet.com ]

Fastly outage explained: How one customer broke Amazon, Reddit and the wider internet

Tuesday will be remembered as the day the internet broke — before swiftly being fixed again. Early in the morning, websites including Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, Ebay, Twitch, Pinterest and, unfortunately, CNET went offline due to a major outage at a service called Fastly. Everywhere you looked, there were 503 errors and people complaining they couldn‘t access key services and news outlets. It all demonstrated just how much of the internet relies on this largely unheard-of cloud computing service.