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TOKYO — A global internet outage on Tuesday shut down the websites of many major news outlets, from Nikkei to The New York Times, as well as Amazon and the British government.
The system failure, which began around 6:50 p.m. Tokyo time, was connected to a glitch at U.S.-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Fastly offers a service known as a content delivery network, which reduces loading times for websites by storing videos, photos and other data on so-called edge servers as close to client machines as possible.
The affected news sites, which also include Nikkei Asia, Nikkei Financial, the Financial Times and Bloomberg News, all used Fastly CDNs.
The disruption appeared to have been mostly resolved after about an hour. Fastly said on its website around 10:45 p.m. Tokyo time that the company “has observed recovery of all services and has resolved this incident.”
Other affected sites included e-commerce platforms run by Japan’s Mercari and Rakuten Group. In addition to Amazon’s websites, its Twitch gaming platform was also unstable.
