Last Updated on: 22nd July 2021, 10:05 pm
A major internet outage today 2021 crashed several websites on Thursday, including Amazon, Airbnb, FedX, UPS, PlayStation and others.
The cause of the failure remains unknown, but Akamai’s global content delivery network has confirmed a widespread issue with its Edge DNS service.
In a statement, Akamai said at 12:09 p.m. ET is “aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.”
As per the DownDetector official site, the outage affects PlayStation, Fidelity, FedEx, UPS, AirBNB, Home Depot, Disney, and more. At 12:45 p.m. ET, the most affected websites began to come back online.
In a statement posted on its website, Oracle admitted that the Akamai issue was affecting its web services.
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Last month Fastly suffered a major internet outage, destroying some of the most important websites in the world.
The company blamed a software bug for the failure that was triggered when a customer changed a configuration.
The issue with Fastly has prevented internet users from logging into a number of popular websites, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Twitch, Reddit, and the UK government homepage.
“We experienced a global internet outage today due to an undetected software bug that occurred on June 8 when it was triggered by a valid customer configuration change,” said Nick Rockwell, senior vice president of engineering and infrastructure at Fastly, in a blog post.
The internet outage today was called “big and serious,” but the company quickly identified, isolated, and shut down the problem, and within 49 minutes most of its network was back up and running.
The bug was contained in a software update released in May, and Rockwell said the company is trying to figure out why it was not found during testing.
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The incident highlighted how the global internet outage today depends on a handful of support companies like Fastly, providing vital infrastructure, and raised concerns about their vulnerability to more serious disruption.
