Hundreds of web pages stopped working properly due to a failure in the Fastly CDN network . It serves hundreds of companies around the world. Among the affected pages were Amazon, Twitch, Reddit, Spotify and Twitter, among many others, according to the Downdetector portal.
A CDN network like Fastly's helps to distribute content over the internet in a faster and more efficient way regardless of where the visitors are. This type of technology is widely used by those companies that provide services through the internet. However, only a limited number of providers are able to meet the demands of platforms such as Amazon, Twitch, Reddit, Spotify or Twitter, with a high volume of traffic. Fastly's error also seems to have affected media outlets such as El País, Financial Times or The Guardian.
On social media, thousands of people reported problems with various platforms , including some like Amazon, Twitch, Reddit, Spotify, and Twitter. The bugs were different in each case: in some, they did not load certain elements of the affected platforms; In others, however, the platform in question was not working at all.
Fastly's crash affected all nodes, but has been resolved
Fastly first reported an error on its CDN network at 11:58 AM (Peninsular Spain time zone). Almost an hour later, at 1:13 p.m., the company reported on its website that the error had been resolved . Pages that depend on its infrastructure, such as Amazon, Twitch, Reddit, Twitter or Spotify, began operating normally shortly after.
On its status page, the company placed a “Degraded Performance” warning next to each location where it has a node, so the bug affected its entire CDN network , not only to some regions of the planet. The reason behind this index is, for the moment, a mystery, although the CEO of Fastly has assured in statements to The Wall Street Journal that it has nothing to do with a cyberattack on its infrastructure.
