Fastly blames software bug for major global internet outage

FILE PHOTO: The New York Times office is pictured in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., September 28, 2020. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Fastly Inc., the company behind a major global internet outage this week, said on Wednesday the incident was caused by a bug in its software that was triggered when one of its customers changed their settings.

Tuesday's outage raised questions about the reliance of the internet on a few infrastructure companies. Fastly https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/fastly-cloud-company-behind-global-internet-outage-2021-06-08's issue knocked out high traffic sites including news providers such as The Guardian and New York Times, as well as British government sites, Reddit and Amazon.com.