Hundreds of websites go down around the world, Spotify, Netflix and Amazon affected

Hundreds of websites down this morning after massive internet loss, millions of users around the world reported trying to access sites but having trouble.

Hundreds of websites go down around the world, Spotify, Netflix and Amazon affected

Hundreds of websites around the world crashed this morning after a massive loss of internet, with the British government, Amazon and Spotify under experienced problems.

Millions of users around the world reported trying to access sites, such as Netflix, Twitch and news websites, including the BBC, Guardian, CNN and the New York Times but had trouble logging in.

Some websites appeared to be back online shortly before noon, but with slow load times.

The problem has been caused by a content promotion network (CDN) that helps users display site content more quickly.

The goal of CDNs is to reduce latency: the delay from the time a user makes a request to the exact instant they receive a response. The higher the latency, the worse the user experience.

The higher the latency, the worse the user experience.

But if the service suffers a failure, like Fastly’s today, it prevents the businesses that use it from being able to operate on the network.

Many of the world’s largest websites run on the “Edge Cloud” platform network, hence the massive failure.

Fastly first posted an error message at 10.58 BST (05.58 ET), saying it was “investigating a possible performance impact with our CDN services.”

It then later tweeted, “We have identified a service configuration that was causing outages on our outlets globally and have disabled that configuration.”