According to report reaching oyogist.com, Multiple government and Media websites operated by news outlets including Bloomberg, the Financial Times and the New York Times are down across the world this morning.
Most reports are pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Amazon’s retail website is also facing an outage, but the company was not available to comment.
CNN, the Guardian, the Independent, the Spectator and the UK government website are also down.
Nearly 21,000 Reddit users also reported issues with the social media platform, while more than 2,000 reported problems with Amazon.
The issue, which began shortly after 11am, appears to be a glitch at data centre provider Fastly.
“We’re currently investigating potential impact to performance with our CDN services,” the company said.
Fastly runs an “edge cloud” which is designed to speed up loading times for websites and help them deal with bursts of traffic.
Users on Twitter speculated about the reasons behind the problem, with Guardian journalist Alex Hern tweeting: “That technology inherently requires Fastly to sit between most of its clients and their users, meaning that if the service suffers a catastrophic failure, it can prevent those companies from operating on the net at all.”
Some sites, including BBC, have been able to restore services in the past few minutes by switching their systems away from Fastly’s network.
