A glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, was reported, which caused outages on several prominent websites, including Reddit, Amazon and Spotify.
- The glitch began to be reported on social media platforms. Many users cited that popular websites such as Twitch, GitHub, Reddit, The New York Times, Shazam, The Rolling Stone, and more were suddenly not accessible.
- On Twitter, the company explained that a service configuration had triggered the disruptions, and a fix has been applied.
A glitch at Fastly, a popular CDN provider, was reported, which caused outages on several prominent websites, including Reddit, Amazon and Spotify.
Fastly is a cloud computing services provider, which offers CDN, edge computing, cloud storage services.
CDN refers to a geographically distributed group of servers that work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content.
On June 8, 09:58, UTC Fastly provided a status update saying: “We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services."
About an hour later, Fastly said: “The issue has been identified, and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return”.
Which are the websites affected?
Amazon.com, Reddit, Twitch, Pinterest, Spotify, PayPal, Stack Overflow, GitHub, GOV.UK, Hulu, HBO Max, Vimeo, Quora and Shopify are some of the big names. Prominent news websites impacted were the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Guardian, CNN, and Verge.
BleepingComputer reports that accessing any of the websites impacted by this issue throws a "connection failure," error, "IO error," or an HTTP 503 code.
It also said that all of its geographies, including the three stations in India — Chennai, Mumbai and New Delhi — were undergoing “Degraded Performance”.
The incident quickly reported that the incident affected over 80 service locations across the Asia-Pacific, North America, South America, South Africa, Europe, and India.
What does CDN do?
Content delivery networks (CDN) help improve performance by caching data as close to the end-user as possible. The web pages load quicker as the data doesn’t need to be fetched from the original server. The majority of web traffic across the world today is routed through CDNs. Another reason companies rely on these CDNs is to help safeguard their sites against distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks, traffic spikes etc.
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