Fastly gave the explanation for the outage.
Fastly (FSLY) – Fastly issued an apology for Tuesday’s widespread internet
outage, with the cloud computing company saying the incident was caused by a
software bug that was triggered when a customer changed settings. Fastly rose
2.4% in the
Global glitch: swaths of internet go down after cloud outage
Numerous websites went offline briefly after an apparent widespread outage at
the cloud service company Fastly, and there were still reports of sporadic
disruptions after the company patched the problem an hour later.
