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Huge outrage on the Internet as popular sites like quora, GitHub, Stackoverflow go down!

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In a massive internet outage, several popular websites including leading news portals on Tuesday went off the grid globally, including Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, GitHub, Hulu, HBO Max, CNN, the Guardian, the New York Times, the BBC, the Financial Times and more.

Multiple outages struck social networking, government, and news websites around the world, with some reports pointing to a problem at Fastly, a US-based cloud computing services provider.

According to the website, the majority of Fastly’s coverage zones were experiencing “Degraded Performance.”

Amazon.com Inc’s retail website appeared to be down as well. Amazon Twitch experienced a similar outrage.

News websites such as the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Bloomberg News also experienced disruptions.

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, around 21,000 Reddit users reported troubles with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 users reported troubles with Amazon.

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