Fastly blames single customer for global internet outage that crippled Amazon and other websites 

Several popular websites went down for almost half an hour due to a major flaw in the Fastly content delivery network (CDN) on June 8.

Several popular websites went down for almost half an hour due to a major flaw in the Fastly content delivery network (CDN) on June 8. Fastly has now revealed the reason behind the outage. Surprisingly, the company had very little to do in the websites becoming non-functional for almost half an hour, it was the doing of a customer, Fastly has claimed. Acknowledging the glitch, Nick Rockwell, the company’s SVP of engineering and infrastructure said in a blog post, “We experienced a global outage due to an undiscovered software bug that surfaced on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change. We detected the disruption within one minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration. Within 49 minutes, 95% of our network was operating as normal. This outage was broad and severe, and we’re truly sorry for the impact to our customers and everyone who relies on them.” The websites that were impacted due to the Fastly bug includes some popular news websites including the New York Times, Guardian, The Verge, CNN, Financial Times and other websites such as Amazon.com, Reddit, Twitch, Spotify, Pinterest, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo.