Internet outage brings down Amazon, Reddit and British Government website

A disruption at Fastly, a content delivery network provider, led to a global outage affecting many high-traffic websites, including the British government's official site. The outage lasted about 45 minutes, with users receiving error messages, although some reported no issues. Content delivery networks like Fastly help speed up internet connections by hosting copies of websites on server farms worldwide, acting as intermediaries between users and the original servers.

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