Websites for The Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, the New York Times, and Twitch were among those down and giving error messages.
A massive internet outage on Tuesday has hit websites of the UK Government, Amazon, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify, and a number of leading media companies.
Websites for the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, the New York Times and Twitch were among those down and giving error messages.
Fastly have confirmed on their status page.
Monitoring – The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return. Jun 8, 10:57 UTC
That "origin load" is what I was warning about
— Matt 'TK' Taylor (@MattieTK) June 8, 2021
The UK Government website – gov.uk – was also not working, giving the error message “Error 503 Service Unavailable”, though it was back online at 11.30 am. Error 503 indicates that a service is temporarily unable to handle a request, perhaps because the server is overloaded or down for maintenance.
Visitors to a number of websites, including The Guardian, received an error message stating “connection failure” or “Fastly error: unknown domain”.
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Other websites affected included the Evening Standard and French newspaper Le Monde.
Some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Although the official cause behind this outage is yet to be ascertained. The outage problem has been resolved in many areas as of now.
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