Websites for the UK government and leading media companies including The Guardian, Financial Times and The New York Times briefly went down during a global internet outage today.
The websites for the BBC and the US White House were also temporarily inaccessible, but later returned.
Amazon, Etsy, eBay and Vimeo users were among those reporting problems this morning before the sites returned online.
The outage appeared to have been linked to an issue with a content delivery network (CDN), a system used to host websites and their content and serve it to users.
Fastly, a leading CDN, reported a major outage across its global network, which is believed to have caused the issue. Most of Fastly’s coverage areas were facing “degraded performance,” the website
