A massive internet outage has affected websites including the Guardian, the UK government’s website gov.uk, Amazon and Reddit. The outage was traced to a failure in a content delivery network (CDN) run by Fastly. Users in some locations, such as Berlin, reported no problems, while others experienced massive failures across the internet. Within minutes of the outage starting, Fastly, a cloud computing services provider, acknowledged that its content distribution network was the cause of the problem. In 2020, a problem with Cloudflare, another CDN company, led to a half-hour outage for most of the internet in major cities across Europe and the Americas.

Source: The Guardian June 08, 2021 11:04 UTC