By Sam Schechner and Parmy Olson
Dozens of websites in the U.S. and Europe were inaccessible early Tuesday, with at least one internet outage tracker reporting widespread disruptions.
Sites including the U.K. government's main public-services portal and several major U.S. and European news outlets were inaccessible. Down Detector, an internet services tracker, reported a spike in outages just after 6 a.m. Eastern time.
Social media users described widespread outages in multiple regions.
Tens of thousands of people trying to access major global websites covering news, e-commerce, and the government reported outages early on Tuesday.
Sites including The New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, the Financial Times, the Guardian, $Amazon.Com Inc(AMZN.US)$, $Spotify Technology SA(SPOT.US)$, Reddit, Twitch, and the U.K. government website were down, based on user reports on the outage aggregator Downdetector.com and from attempts at access by Barron's reporters.
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$FASTLY INC(FSLY.US)$, the operator of a content-delivery network service that many websites use to help speed the loading of their web pages for users, reported issues with its services on Tuesday morning, though it was unclear whether the broader website outages were related.
"We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services," the company said in an online-status page.
Update at 3:50 AM PT: Some websites are slowly coming back up. 「The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented,」 Fastly says on its status page.
Update at 4:02 AM PT: The issue seems to be resolved as affected websites and services now load normally. The company hasn’t communicated about the source of the outage yet. Overall, it lasted around an hour.
Write to Sam Schechner at sam.schechner@wsj.com and Parmy Olson at parmy.olson@wsj.com
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June 08, 2021 06:51 ET (10:51 GMT)
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