{"id":165064,"date":"2021-06-08T13:42:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T13:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/amazon-ebay-etsy-paypal-among-the-sites-affected-by-huge-global-outage\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T12:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T12:11:46","slug":"amazon-ebay-etsy-paypal-among-the-sites-affected-by-huge-global-outage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theindustry.fashion\/amazon-ebay-etsy-paypal-among-the-sites-affected-by-huge-global-outage\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon, eBay, Etsy, PayPal among the sites affected by huge global outage"},"content":{"rendered":"
A huge internet crash has seen dozens of big name platforms, e-c<\/strong>ommerce sites and services go offline around the world, with Amazon, eBay, Etsy, PayPal, Twitter, as well as UK and US government pages and global news websites affected.<\/strong><\/p>\n Throughout this morning users were presented with 503 error screens and websites failing to load, with others providing a much slower than usual service.<\/p>\n Fastly, a global online content delivery network (CDN), had reported an outage across its network, affecting sites which use its platform.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The US-based company confirmed it had found the issue and that its global network was coming back online slowly.<\/p>\n In a public statement, Fastly said: \"We identified a service configuration that triggered disruption across our POPs (points of presence) globally and have disabled that configuration. Our global network is coming back online.\"<\/p>\n The situation across the majority of websites has now resolved, with full operations slowly coming back online.<\/p>\n