Australian media affected by global internet outage
Australian media including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 10Play, The Australian Financial Review and more are among global media affected by an internet outage linked to CDN vendor Fastly.
CDN stands for content delivery network, a geographically distributed group of servers that work together to provide fast delivery of Internet content. Fastly is an American CDN vendor and cloud computing business.
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Global media affected by the outage includes Amazon, Reddit, Twitch, CNN, Pinterest, BBC, Bloomberg, The Verge, as well as the White House and UK Government websites. Of those that seem to be unaffected, News Corp Australia is one of the major businesses not to report any issues.
Breaking: the internet. Huge parts of the web are currently offline, including Reddit, Twitch, and (regrettably) The Verge. We’ll keep you posted 👍
— The Verge (@verge) June 8, 2021
According to The Sydney Morning Herald, reporting on its own issues, “Fastly is one of four hosting service providers that looks after CDNs. Akamai, Cloudflare and Amazon Web Services are the other three.”
We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at https://t.co/RIQWX0LWwl
— Fastly (@fastly) June 8, 2021
As of 10:44am UTC (8:44pm AEST) Fastly announced that the issue had been identified and a fix was underway. Investigations into the issue had begun at 9:58am UTC.
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Damian is the head of content at Mumbrella, overseeing all content and editorial within the business. He has worked as a journalist and communications consultant across a number of industries for over 15 years. He has been with Mumbrella for more than three years, initially running event content. Damian was previously print editor of AdNews.
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