BBCNEWS BBC News June 8, 2021 13:50:00
Amazon, the guardian and the new york times sites. (our technology correspondent rory cellan jones explained what happened this was a pretty serious outage. vast range of sites. a lot of newspaper sites, amazon, there was a message saying error 503 service unavailable. it appears to be all down to a company called fast leaf which provides all sorts of essential services to websites. think of it as a traffic management system guiding traffic to them in a smooth way. it had a major problem and has put out a statement saying we identify the service configuration that triggered disruption globally...
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