Global internet outage of June 8: Fastly explains what caused the disruption

Fastly, the cloud-network provider, which was responsible for the global internet outage of June 8, has issued a detailed blogpost explaining what caused the problems. On June 8, a majority of the world’s top news websites such as New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, BBC, BuzzFeed, The Verge, CNET and many others were down and most users got a 503 error when they tried to open these.

The outage also impacted Amazon.com, Reddit, Twitch, Github, Shopify, Spotify and others and was traced to an issue with Fastly, the cloud computing service provider being used by many of these players.

According to Fastly’s blog, the problem was triggered due to an undiscovered bug, which went in action when one of its customers put in a very ‘specific customer configuration’ under very specific circumstances.