The Verge started publishing on a live Google doc instead, but they forgot to restrict editing and random internet users started posting on the document. Fastly is a CDN (Content Distribution Network) which services businesses by letting them use its global network of servers for their own websites. Fastly is used by a range of popular websites, including several media site like the Guardian, New York Times and Buzzfeed. The outage saw visitors to a vast array of sites receive error messages including 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' and 'connection failure. The outage saw visitors to a vast array of sites receive error messages including 'Error 503 Service Unavailable' and 'connection failure.'

Source: Daily Mail June 08, 2021 11:03 UTC