{"id":46379,"date":"2021-06-08T16:17:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/global-glitch-swaths-of-internet-go-down-after-cloud-outage\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T22:17:00","slug":"global-glitch-swaths-of-internet-go-down-after-cloud-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/global-glitch-swaths-of-internet-go-down-after-cloud-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Global glitch: Swaths of internet go down after cloud outage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday June 8, 2021, after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Twitch and the U.K. government\u2019s home page, could not be reached. (Associated Press file)<\/span>Ric Feld<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LONDON \u2013 Dozens of websites went down briefly around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain’s government home page, after an outage at the cloud computing service Fastly, illustrating how vital<\/a> a small number of behind-the-scenes companies have become to running the internet.<\/p>\n

The sites that could not be reached also included some Amazon pages, the Financial Times, Reddit, Twitch and The Guardian.<\/p>\n

San Francisco-based Fastly acknowledged a problem just before 6 a.m. Eastern. About an hour later, the company said: \u201cThe issue has been identified and a fix has been applied.\u201d Most of the sites soon appeared to be back online.<\/p>\n

The company said in an emailed statement that it was a \u201ctechnical issue\u201d and \u201cnot related to a cyber attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, major futures markets in the U.S. dipped sharply minutes after the outage, which came a month after hackers forced the shutdown of the biggest fuel pipeline<\/a> in the U.S.<\/p>\n

Fastly is a content-delivery network, or CDN. It provides vital but behind-the-scenes cloud computing \u201cedge servers\u201d to many of the web\u2019s popular sites. These servers store, or \u201ccache,\u201d content such as images and video in places around the world so that it is closer to users, allowing them to fetch it more quickly and smoothly.<\/p>\n

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The Fastly home page is seen on Tuesday, June 8, 2021, in Los Angeles. Dozens of websites briefly went offline around the globe Tuesday, including CNN, The New York Times and Britain's government home page, after an outage at the cloud service Fastly. (Marcio Jose Sanchez\/Associated Press)<\/span>Marcio Jose Sanchez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Fastly says<\/a> its services mean that a European user going to an American website can get the content 200 to 500 milliseconds faster.<\/p>\n

Internet traffic measurement by Kentik showed that Fastly began to recover from the outage roughly an hour after it struck at mid-morning European time, before most Americans were awake.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooks like it is slowly coming back,\u201d said Doug Madory, an internet infrastructure expert at Kentik. He said \u201cit is serious because Fastly is one of the world\u2019s biggest CDNs and this was a global outage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brief internet service outages are not uncommon and are only rarely the result of hacking or other mischief.<\/p>\n

Fastly stock jumped almost 11% on Tuesday as investors shrugged off the problem.<\/p>\n

Still, the incident highlighted the relative fragility of the internet\u2019s architecture given its heavy reliance on Big Tech companies \u2013 such as Amazon\u2019s AWS cloud services \u2013 as opposed to a more decentralized array of companies.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the biggest and most sophisticated companies experience outages. But they can also recover fairly quickly,\u201d Madory said.<\/p>\n

When the outage hit, some visitors trying to access CNN.com got a message that said: \u201cFastly error: unknown domain: cnn.com.\u201d Attempts to access the Financial Times website turned up a similar message, while visits to The New York Times and U.K. government’s gov.uk site returned an “Error 503 Service Unavailable” message, along with the line \u201cVarnish cache server,” which is a technology that Fastly is built on.<\/p>\n

Down Detector, which tracks internet outages, posted reports on dozens of sites going down.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

Frank Bajak in Boston, Zen Soo in Hong Kong and Matt O’Brien in Providence, Rhode Island contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

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FILE – In this Thursday, May 6, 2021 file photo, a sign for The New York Times hangs above the entrance to its building, in New York. Numerous websites were unavailable on Tuesday June 8, 2021, after an apparent widespread outage 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. (Mark Lennihan\/Associated Press file)<\/span>Mark Lennihan<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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