UPDATE: Media and Government Websites Working Again Following Glitch With Major Content Delivery Network Fastly

Update posted 6:44 a.m. June 8, 2021:

(KNSI) – Cloud computing services company Fastly says it has applied a fix to a glitch that took down several major media and government websites Tuesday morning.

Websites including USA Today, CNN, BBC, Hulu, Reddit, The New York Times, The Guardian, PayPal, Target, HBO Max and others all reported outages.

While some websites are back up, others remain down as Fastly works to repair the glitch.

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Original story posted 5:50 a.m. June 8, 2021:

(KNSI) – Several media and government websites are offline Tuesday morning, due to a glitch with cloud computing services company Fastly.

Fastly is a content delivery network company, which allows users to quickly view digital content. Content delivery networks or CDNs are part of the framework for the entire internet structure.

According to Tech Crunch, which was still working amid the major outage, the websites for BBC, CNN, GitHub, gov.uk, HBO Max, Hulu, PayPal, Pinterest, Reddit, Shopify, Spotify, Target, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times, Twitch and Vimeo were all offline. That list is just some of the sites affected.

Some of the sites are coming back up as companies find workarounds to the outage.

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