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HUGE internet Outage Hits Major Sites Across The World
HUGE internet Outage Hits Major Sites Including Amazon, eBay, Twitter and GOV.UK
The UK Government, Amazon and Reddit were among those affected by the internet outage which was affecting websites around the world, giving "Error 503" or "connection failure" messages
AP 8 JUN 2021
Major websites across the world suffered outages on Tuesday morning.
A number of leading news websites including the Evening Standard, The Independent, the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Guardian and CNN were affected.
Early reports suggested the issues could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider.
The UK government website - gov.uk - was also affected, as was Amazon, Reddit, Twitch and Pinterest.Affected websites displayed the message: “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”
Alex Hern, the Guardian's technology editor, tweeted that Fastly "has been identified as the cause of the problem".
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