The global internet crash that shut down most of the world’s visited websites on Tuesday was caused by a single customer, according to the infrastructure provider, according to the infrastructure provider. On June 7, at 3 a.m. BST (SST / EST PST), Internet users around the world were greeted with a message: “Error 503 Service unavailable” and “Connection failure”. Media outlets such as the Financial Times, CNN, the BBC, and the New York Times – including Twitch, Reddit, Amazon, Hulu, Spotify, and UK government websites – are among the most important and influential websites in the world.
The isolation was caused by problems with cloud computing service provider Fastley. In all, the bug affected up to 85 percent of their network, affecting Internet users from Boston and Bogota to Tokyo and Toronto. Meanwhile, a few more cities, such as Berlin and Beijing, remained unchanged. Within an hour most networks were able to recover quickly and apologized for the inconvenience. While investigating the issue, they found that this expansion was caused by a single customer changing their settings, which introduced a latent bug in a software update in May 2021. The person does not know what power they applied for an hour.
Nick Rockwell, Senior Vice President of Engineering and Infrastructure at Fastly, said in a statement, “We were experiencing a global confusion due to an uncovered software bug that was released on June 8th when we were triggered by a valid customer configuration change.” Rockwell added, “Although there were some conditions that triggered this discrepancy, we should have guessed it. Undoubtedly it was a stressful day in the fast offices but it was not bad news for the San Francisco-based company. Perhaps most surprising is the fact that shares have risen 11 percent in the wake of the outage.
The reasons behind the rise are multifaceted, but this is probably a reflection of how easily the problem was solved. In addition, the growing Internet infrastructure quickly focused on how important services are to run every day. I guess you can’t figure out how much you need until it’s over …
