Settings changes by one Fastly customer caused global internet outage

Amsterdam: Fastly Inc. said the major global internet outage on Tuesday was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.

Tuesday’s outage raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies.

Fastly’s issue knocked out high traffic sites including, news providers such as The Guardian and The New York Times, as well as British government sites, Reddit and Amazon.com.