I am experiencing this outage with New York Times and several other websites. With Amazon, I can't access the website unless I use a VPN.
"Amazon, Reddit, Twitter and Twitch impacted by huge network outage CDN provider Fastly appears to be the source of the problem... The source of the problem appears to be the content delivery network (CDN) Fastly, judging by the fact that Fastly is appearing in some of the 503 errors, though that has not yet been confirmed. On its status page, Fastly says 'we're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services'..." https://www.engadget.com/a-huge-outage-is-affecting-large-swaths-of-the-internet-102354305.html
Fastly Service Status: "Identified - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented. Jun 8, 10:44 UTC" https://status.fastly.com/
"Monitoring The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return. Posted 1 minute ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:57 UTC" https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
Thanks for the coverage, imdb and hawki. Right now at 8:20 am Eastern Standard Time, I can access all of the listed sites here. Amazon, Spotify, Reddit, Twitter. No problems, no increased loading time.
"Fastly internet outage explained: How one customer broke Amazon, Reddit and half the web... After an investigation into what went wrong, Fastly published a blog post describing exactly what went down -- and it turns out the whole incident was triggered by just a single, unnamed Fastly customer... In mid-May, Fastly issued a software deployment that contained a bug, which if triggered in specific circumstances could take down vast swaths of its network. The bug lay dormant until June 8, when one Fastly customer inadvertently triggered it during a "valid configuration change," which caused 85% of the company's network to return errors..." 'We detected the disruption within 1 minute, then identified and isolated the cause, and disabled the configuration... sWithin 49 minutes, 95% of our network was operating as normal'..." https://www.cnet.com/news/fastly-in...ustomer-broke-amazon-reddit-and-half-the-web/
