There have been a number of disruptions to web sites the world over on Tuesday morning, affecting information web sites and social media platforms. Reuters couldn’t instantly verify the difficulty affecting the websites. Separately, the retail web site of Amazon.com Inc. was additionally going through an outage. Amazon was not instantly out there to remark.
Major web sites operated by information retailers together with the Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, CNN and Bloomberg News have been closed. In an in depth thread on Twitter, the Guardian’s UK know-how correspondent Alex Hearn wrote that the “massive Internet outage” was traced to a failure within the content material supply community (CDN) run by Fastly.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
