Together, the online services reach hundreds of millions of people every day. Disruption to the UK government’s network of websites, gov.uk, may have caused problems for people booking Covid-19 vaccinations or reporting test results. A Silicon Valley-based internet infrastructure provider, Fastly, admitted that a problem with its systems caused the outage. Disruption“We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs [points of presence] globally and have disabled that configuration. But they recovered that ground shortly after markets opened and were trading 4 per cent higher in late morning.

Source: The Irish Times June 08, 2021 10:41 UTC