Massive online outage sparks jokes of "internet apocalypse"

• Published date: 08 June 2021
• Author: Dan Verbin
• Date: 08 June 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Some visitors trying to reach the unavailable sites were greeted with error messages that read "Error 503 Service Unavailable." Others simply received a "connection failure" timeout.

Outage tracker Downdetector.com listed many high traffic sites as being down, including Reddit, Amazon, HBO Max, Hulu, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Google, Target and the New York Times, reported CBC News.

The UK's attorney general Michael Ellis tweeted that his country's main gov.uk website was down. And reportedly nearly 21,000 Reddit users were unable to access the social media site.

For now, it is not clear exactly what caused the massive outage. Evidence points to an issue at San Francisco-based cloud computing provider, Fastly.

According to the New York Post, the company announced early Tuesday that was was having a technical issue that was being...