The outage involved, for example, the websites of airlines, banks and technology companies, including Delta Air Lines and the American Express credit card issuer.
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Reuters pointed out that this is the third such incident in the last two months. In June, outages affected social media and government and news sites. Some reports in this context have pointed to a problem with the American company Fastly, which is a provider of cloud services.
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The Independent server reported that today’s outage also affected, for example, online stores, including Amazon, or streaming services such as HBO Max.
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Akamai first announced that it was facing a service outage. She later stated that she had taken remedial action and that services were being restored. The outage lasted about an hour, Reuters writes.
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According to Akamai, the outage was caused by a bug in the domain name system caused by a software update. “We are reviewing our update system to prevent future outages,” the company said. She emphasized that the outage was not the result of a cyber attack.
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