A system failure, identified only at 7:44 a.m. (Brasília time) and corrected 12 minutes later, caused a number of international websites to suffer access problems and remain offline throughout the morning. The problem occurred at one of the world's leading content distribution network (CDN) providers starting around 2:30 a.m. and affected the performance of several very popular pages.

Among the sites that went offline were CNN International, Amazon, eBay, Twitch, PayPal, Spotify, Gify, Financial Times, The Guardian and Bloomberg. According to the report produced by Fastly, the problem, which on the page was identified as “Degraded Performance”, affected practically all regions of the world.

“When a network issue occurs, we believe our customers deserve clear and transparent communication so they can maintain confidence in our services. The issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return,” the company posted, without, however, going into the merits of what could have caused the outage.

Government websites also went down

The failure that took several websites offline, from major media outlets to social networks, also affected official government websites around the world. Among those that experienced problems, we can mention, for example, that of the British government, which encompasses several ministries and allows official procedures to be carried out. The error identified was 503 (server unavailable).

Besides him, the White House official website, certainly one of the most protected in the world against any type of attack, also displayed an error message, like the one shown above. Both, however, have now returned to normal, as have the news sites and others that reported problems to Fastly's support.

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