"A MASS outage has taken banks, streaming sites and even the PlayStation Network offline for thousands of users..." https://www.the-sun.com/tech/3331663/playstation-psn-lloyds-hsbc-channel-4-itv-down/
"Banks, brokerages, PSN, the Steam Store and more are down in massive internet outage Many websites, including banking pages, brokerages, and gaming services, have been affected by what looks to be a major internet outage. As website owners and companies that run services that provide the backbone of the web scramble to solve the issue, consumers have been left unable to access services like Ally Bank, Fidelity, Sony’s PlayStation Network, Airbnb, and more. At the moment, it’s unclear what’s causing the outage, though DownDetector reports that both AWS and Akamai, a pair of content delivery networks that host much of the internet, are both experiencing issues..." https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/22/...n-steam-banks-trading-gaming-more-911-systems
"DNS outage takes down large chunk of the internet — Steam, HBO Max, and more are all offline... It seems to be some sort of issue with DNS, as many of the sites return a generic DNS failure error message. Akamai has reported an outage on its status site, which could be the cause of today's problems..." https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/...internet-steam-hbo-max-and-more-are-all-down/
"Websites of airlines, banks, tech companies down in widespread outage July 22 (Reuters) - Websites of several airlines, banks and technology companies including Amazon's AWS (AMZN.O), Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) and American Express (AXP.N) were facing outages, according to DownDetector. Websites were not loading and displaying domain name system (DNS) service errors. Reuters could not immediately verify the issue affecting the sites..." https://www.reuters.com/technology/...-companies-down-widespread-outage-2021-07-22/
Akamai Edge DNS is down "Edge DNS Service Incident Investigating - We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service. We are actively investigating the issue. If you have questions or are experiencing impact due to this issue, please contact Akamai Technical Support. In the interest of time, we are providing you the most current information available, which is subject to changes, corrections, and updates. Jul 22, 16:09 UTC" https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/
"ORACLE CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE - MONITORING GLOBAL ISSUE RELATED TO AKAMAI EDGE DNS IMPACTING ACCESS TO MANY RESOURCES,INCLUDING ORACLE CLOUD PROPERTIES" https://twitter.com/FirstSquawk/status/1418249341597220873
Akamai: "We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated." https://twitter.com/Akamai/status/1418251400660889603
"Akamai Software Update Triggers Internet Outages... 'A software configuration update triggered a bug in the DNS (domain name system) system, the system that directs browsers to websites,' Akamai said in a post. 'This caused a disruption impacting availability of some customer websites.' Rolling back the software update fixed the problem, according to Akamai, which apologized for the trouble..." https://www.securityweek.com/akamai...outages?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
