Fastly, which provides services to several websites, underwent a global outage event early on Tuesday. At the time of writing, hundreds of popular websites used by Irish internet users were affected. This included dozens of major Irish and international news websites, including the Irish Times, the BBC, the New York Times and the Guardian. This makes the content quicker to load, seen as a crucial competitive advantage for big web services. Last year, similar outages from both Cloudflare and AWS knocked out thousands of popular web services around the world.

Source: Irish Independent June 08, 2021 10:41 UTC