news Breaking: Etsy, Amazon, Reddit and news sites down

[Mister Funsky]

Either a major server is down or it is a coordinated action...

SITE CRASH
Websites go down worldwide as UK Government, news providers, Amazon and Reddit affected by outage


https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/7224503/websites-down-amazon-reddit-outage/

 

[Mister Funsky]

Some more info:

Many large websites are currently down due to a major CDN issue. The issue appears to be rooted at the Fastly CDN network.

Websites currently experiencing issues include Amazon, Reddit, Spotify, and The New York Times. Some websites are completely unavailable, whereas others are having issues loading assets like fonts or images.


A CDN is a content delivery network that caches data in localized regional servers, allowing websites to serve content faster. Only a handful of CDNs are capable of managing the traffic requirements of big sites, which means a lot of responsibility lies at the hands of very few centralized server networks.

Failures are generally rare, but when they do happen, they have wide-reaching implications as we are seeing happen right now.

A lot of commercial high-profile web-apps are impacted, including Twitter, Spotify, PayPal, eBay, Amazon and Reddit. The outages also extends to other important institutions including the UK government’s website. So far, it doesn’t seem like Apple relies on Fastly as its services have stayed up — Apple largely partners with Akamai for its CDN.

Fastly CDN: Many large websites are currently down including Amazon, Reddit, Twitter, Spotify and more

 

[aliweb]

https://status.fastly.com/

 

[The Durfer]

yipes. Anytime man depends on his own inventions instead of God, he will have problems.

 

[aliweb]

Fastly - The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Jun 8, 10:44 UTC

 

[aliweb]

Fastly - The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
Jun 8, 10:57 UTC

 

[Mister Funsky]

Slowly things are coming back online. It will be interesting to learn what the cause was.

Update: Some of these sites are now accessible again. On its status page, Fastly said “The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.”

 

[Future Sensors]

In the meantime, let us reflect with this article from 2016, which shows how a small mistake can paralyze many major websites. These kinds of dependencies are only increasing.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code/

 

[redemo]

Global CDN Disruption
https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj
Incident Report for Fastly​

Resolved
Fastly has observed recovery of all services and has resolved this incident. Customers could continue to experience a period of increased origin load and lower Cache Hit Ratio (CHR).
Posted 7 minutes ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 12:41 UTC
Update
A fix was applied at 10:36 UTC. Customers may continue to experience decreased cache hit ratio and increased origin load as global services return.
Posted 51 minutes ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 11:57 UTC
Monitoring
The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return.
Posted 2 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:57 UTC
Identified
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
Posted 2 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:44 UTC
Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted 2 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:26 UTC
Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted 2 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:23 UTC
Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted 2 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:21 UTC
Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted 3 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:11 UTC
Update
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
Posted 3 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 10:07 UTC
Investigating
We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services.
Posted 3 hours ago. Jun 08, 2021 - 09:58 UTC
This incident affected: Asia/Pacific (Auckland (AKL), Brisbane (BNE), Dubai (FJR), Hong Kong (HKG), Melbourne (MEL), Osaka (ITM), Perth (PER), Singapore (SIN), Sydney (SYD), Tokyo (HND), Tokyo (TYO), Wellington (WLG), Singapore (QPG), Tokyo (NRT)), South America (Buenos Aires (EZE), Bogota (BOG), Curitiba (CWB), Rio de Janeiro (GIG), Santiago (SCL), Sāo Paulo (CGH), Sāo Paulo (GRU), Lima (LIM)), North America (Ashburn (BWI), Ashburn (DCA), Ashburn (IAD), Ashburn (WDC), Atlanta (FTY), Atlanta (PDK), Boston (BOS), Chicago (CHI), Chicago (MDW), Chicago (ORD), Chicago (PWK), Columbus (CMH), Columbus (LCK), Dallas (DAL), Dallas (DFW), Denver (DEN), Houston (IAH), Jacksonville (JAX), Kansas City (MCI), Los Angeles (BUR), Los Angeles (LAX), Los Angeles (LGB), Miami (MIA), Minneapolis (MSP), Minneapolis (STP), Montreal (YUL), New York (LGA), Newark (EWR), Palo Alto (PAO), Phoenix (PHX), Portland (PDX), San Jose (SJC), Seattle (SEA), St. Louis (STL), Toronto (YYZ), Vancouver (YVR)), South Africa (Cape Town (CPT), Johannesburg (JNB)), India (Chennai (MAA), Mumbai (BOM), New Delhi (DEL)), and Europe (Amsterdam (AMS), Copenhagen (CPH), Dublin (DUB), Frankfurt (FRA), Frankfurt (HHN), Helsinki (HEL), London (LCY), London (LHR), London (LON), Madrid (MAD), Manchester (MAN), Marseille (MRS), Milan (MXP), Oslo (OSL), Paris (CDG), Stockholm (BMA), Vienna (VIE), Munich (MUC)).

https://web.archive.org/web/20210608123607/https://status.fastly.com/incidents/vpk0ssybt3bj

 

[redemo]

That's one way to get people talking about your company. Shut down the global internet for an hour.

 

[Hypersot]

yipes. Anytime man depends on his own inventions instead of God, he will have problems.

I prefer human inventions as a main problem with God is that you can't call for support

 

[johnn]

No internet no Bitcoin

 

[Mister Funsky]

That's one way to get people talking about your company. Shut down the global internet for an hour.

Ture! Guerilla marketing at its best.

 

[King]

No internet no Bitcoin

& no domains

 

[Future Sensors]

Summary of June 8 outage

Nick Rockwell
Senior Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure at Fastly

https://www.fastly.com/blog/summary-of-june-8-outage

 

[Kris88]

man this screwed up my day something fierce

 

[Future Sensors]

I like the blog post APNIC wrote about this:

https://blog.apnic.net/2021/06/09/no-the-internet-was-not-down/

 

[Future Sensors]

This time not Fastly CDN, but Akamai CDN.

July 22, 2021.

Widespread Outage Disrupts Major Retail, Financial, Travel Websites Worldwide
Some of the world's largest financial, retail, travel and gaming websites were unable as of midday Thursday

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/wid...-financial-travel-websites-worldwide/3168859/

Steam, PSN, Fortnite, online banking and other services are down right now

https://www.techradar.com/news/steam-playstation-network-and-more-are-down

Akamai System Status

https://edgedns.status.akamai.com/

 

[redemo]

It's so smart. Take major websites offline for one hour. Cause a media frenzy. By the time people go to check the sites they're all back online. Your visit gave all those sites a new cookie to track you. Perhaps you saw a special offer and signed up? They did it last month. Probably do it again next month. Trouble is doing it too often raises suspicions. Maybe they'll wait bit longer next time.

Edit for @Future Sensors cheers for keeping us in the loop

 

[Future Sensors]

It's so smart. Take major websites offline for one hour. Cause a media frenzy. By the time people go to check the sites they're all back online. Your visit gave all those sites a new cookie to track you. Perhaps you saw a special offer and signed up? They did it last month. Probably do it again next month. Trouble is doing it too often raises suspicions. Maybe they'll wait bit longer next time.

You forgot the smiley?

 

[CraigD]

I prefer human inventions as a main problem with God is that you can't call for support

Yes you can.

Put your palms together under your chin and say "Please don't let bored and angry Redditors loose on the internet..."

 

[redemo]

"Please don't let bored and angry Redditors loose on the internet..."

Too late. The Reddit zombie apocalypse is in full swing.