Fastly Blames Global Internet Outage on Software Bug

Fastly Blames Global Internet Outage on Software Bug
The Fastly home page is seen in Los Angeles, Calif., on June 8, 2021. Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP Photo
The Associated Press
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LONDON—Fastly, the company hit by a major outage that caused many of the world’s top websites to go offline briefly this week, blamed the problem on a software bug that was triggered when a customer changed a setting.

The problem at Fastly meant internet users couldn’t connect to a host of popular websites early Tuesday including The New York Times, the Guardian, Twitch, Reddit and the British government’s homepage.