Major foreign news websites such as New York Times, BBC, CNN, Reddit, along with other sites such as Amazon and Spotify suffered a global outage on June 8. Users were returned an error that read: “Error 503 Service Unavailable.”
The glitch that brought swaths of the internet down was a result of an outage at cloud service company Fastly – all the websites that stopped working use Fastly's CDN services.
As the news of the global outage started spreading, users started rushing to microblogging platform Twitter to check if the news is true. Some said: "We were warned", others assured, "yes, it's not just you".
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