Internet services disrupted worldwide, UK govt, Amazon, NYT websites too face outages

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Large-scale outages hit social media, government and news websites worldwide on Tuesday, with some reports attributing the collapse to a technical problem at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.</p>
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Fastly has said it is investigating an issue with its CDN (Content Delivery Network) servers. "We're currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services," says a notice on its websites. However, it did not provide any details on the cause of the disruption.</p>
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Most of Fastly's coverage areas were facing "Degraded Performance", the website showed.</p>
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Major global news websites, including the New York Times,  Financial Times, the Guardian as well as the main internet portal of the British government were hit by the outage.</p>
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The gov.uk website reported a '503 Service Unavailable' error message around 6:20 am Eastern time, alongside similar connection failures from sites such as The New York Times, CNN, the London Guardian, Bloomberg News and the Financial Times.</p>
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Amazon.com Inc's retail website also seemed to be down. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.</p>
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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.</p>
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Amazon's Twitch was also experiencing a disruption, according to Downdetector's website.</p>