{"id":556824,"date":"2021-06-08T12:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556824"},"modified":"2021-06-08T12:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T16:36:20","slug":"cloud-outage-forces-major-companies-offline-amazon-hbo-max-and-the-new-york-times-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cloud-outage-forces-major-companies-offline-amazon-hbo-max-and-the-new-york-times-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Outage Forces Major Companies Offline; Amazon, HBO Max And The New York Times Affected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcloud-outage-forces-major-companies-offline-amazon-hbo-max-and-the-new-york-times-affected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=556824&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1213312949-1-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>A major internet outage caused multiple well-known websites to crash Tuesday morning, including Amazon, HBO Max and Reddit. The problems were reportedly due to issues experienced by the cloud computing provider Fastly, which identified concerns within its global content delivery network (CDN) and was in the process of implementing a fix.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration,\u201d Fastly announced in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cOur global network is coming back online,\u201d Fastly added, providing a status update link.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.6486486486486\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We identified a service configuration that triggered disruptions across our POPs globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online. Continued status is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RIQWX0LWwl\">https:\/\/t.co\/RIQWX0LWwl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fastly (@fastly) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fastly\/status\/1402221348659814411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The issues began at around 11am BST and lasted for an hour,\u201d according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-57399628\"><span>BBC<\/span><\/a><span>. Among the websites impacted were The New York Times, PayPal, CNN, Twitch, Hulu, Vimeo, BBC.com, Shopify, the Financial Times, and the Guardian, as well as specific services, such as Twitter\u2019s emoji feature.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRather than isolated incidents affecting individual sites, it turned out this was a massive outage that had brought much of the internet to its knees,\u201d reported <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/fastly-outage-why-it-just-broke-amazon-reddit-twitch-and-much-of-the-internet\/\"><span>CNET<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cAcross the world, people were receiving Error: 503 messages as they tried to access sites, including some vital services, such as the UK\u2019s government\u2019s gov.uk web properties.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Fastly is based in San Francisco, and in 2017, \u201c<\/span><span>it launched an edge cloud platform designed to bring websites closer to the people who use them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As CNET explained, \u201cthis means that if you\u2019re accessing a website hosted in another country, it will store some of that website closer to you so that there\u2019s no need to waste bandwidth by going to fetch all of that website\u2019s content from far away every time you need it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While this does mean that website loading times are greatly improved \u2014 with Fastly claiming that Buzzfeed loads 50% faster and The New York Times is able to \u201csimultaneously handle 2 million readers on election night\u201d \u2014 Fastly\u2019s position connecting the server-side and client-side means that any failures can result in entire websites crashing or appearing unavailable to users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Similar crashes have occurred in the past. In <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55087054\"><span>November 2020<\/span><\/a><span>, for example, an Amazon Web Services outage led to a breakdown of \u201csmart-home\u201d technology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For example, Amazon\u2019s \u201cRing\u201d smart doorbells stopped working, with the company announcing, \u201c<\/span><span>We are aware of a service interruption impacting Ring,\u201d and that they \u201capologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and understanding.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Then, in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55299779\"><span>December 2020<\/span><\/a><span>, a service outage in Google\u2019s infrastructure caused Google applications to shut down, with features such as YouTube, Gmail, and Google Docs unavailable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>The outage started shortly before noon UK time, lasting more than half an hour before services were restored,\u201d reported the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-55299779\">BBC<\/a> at the time. \u201cUsers around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps and more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c<\/span><span>Today, at 3.47AM PT Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue,\u201d Google Cloud announced. \u201cThis was resolved at 4:32AM PT, and all services are now restored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"11.2\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today, at 3.47AM PT Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. This was resolved at 4:32AM PT, and all services are now restored.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Google Cloud (@googlecloud) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/googlecloud\/status\/1338493015145504770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major internet outage caused multiple well-known websites to crash Tuesday morning, including Amazon, HBO Max and Reddit. 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