Major Websites down due to cloud issue

[snips86x]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57399628

A number of leading media websites are currently not working, including the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent and the New York Times.

The UK government website - gov.uk - is also down.

Affected websites displayed the message: "Error 503 Service Unavailable".

Early reports have suggested it could be related to Fastly, a cloud computing provider, which underpins a lot of major websites.

Looks like reddit is one of those affected too

 

[jsmoke]

Decathlon is down.

 

[brendy]

Amazon, speedtest.net etc ropey and hit or miss at the moment too.

 

[Ree]

Amazon as well I was trying to check up on an order and none of the images were showing just the 503 and broken images.

 

[Paul11]

AWS is down

 

[Armageus]

It's a CDN provider that is down - affecting huge chunks of the internet

https://status.fastly.com/

 

[Participant]

Twitter down for me.

 

[explicit4u]

Thought it was AWS but it's Fastly, a CDN. Completely taken out twitch, gonna be lots of unhappy streamers losing out.

Makes it extremely difficult to procrastinate now.

 

[snips86x]

Twitter down for me.

Probably a good thing lol

 

[Lysander]

The Guardian is down?

Probably the best thing that could have happened.

 

[Ree]

Amazon back to normal.

 

[Lysander]

Causation?

 

[labbby]

Causation?

unconfirmed reports that a cleaner pulled out the wrong plug so they could plug their hoover in.

 

[GravyMonster]

Seems Amazon were the only ones with a working disaster recovery plan.

StackOverflow, Twitch, Twitter, most of the top 25 sites are all still dead, Jim.

 

[Uther]

Does this mean I have to go outside now?

 

[snips86x]

Seems Amazon were the only ones with a working disaster recovery plan.

Have to admit, that's very impressive!

 

[Freakbro]

.gov.uk seems to be working, well as good as usual anyway

Just ordering a new company taco card and it wouldn't recognise the card number. Had to call them and the answer was "There can be a problem with recognising the card number, just miss out the last 3 numbers on the card and it should work"

and it did I guess it's too difficult to fix the issue so it actually recognises the number or put a bit of text on the page to say leave off the last 3 digits...

 

[Lysander]

Seems Amazon were the only ones with a working disaster recovery plan.

Maybe it was them.

 

[200sols]

The Guardian is down?

Probably the best thing that could have happened.

So many leftwing tears today.

 

[Participant]

Causation?

May I be the first in this thread to blame COVID and the Russians.