Amazon, The Age, The Guardian shut down by global website outage linked to provider 'Fastly'.

In a statement on its website, Fastly said it was investigating "the potential impact to performance with our CDN services".

It later said the issue had since been identified "and a fix has been applied".

"Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return," the statement said.

Websites operated by news outlets including The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Financial Times, the New York Times and Bloomberg News appeared to be down across the globe, while The Guardian said on Twitter that its website and app were being affected by a wider internet outage.

The websites for Amazon and the government of the United Kingdom were also affected.

Nearly 21,000 Reddit users reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported problems with Amazon, according to outage monitoring website Downdetector.com.

Source | Reuters