UPS, Amazon, dozens of major websites taken down in internet outage - FOX 8
Dozens of high-traffic major websites including FedEx, HBO Max and Amazon were all reportedly down Thursday morning.
At least 44 sites were experiencing significant issues as of 11:30 a.m. CT Thursday, according to DownDetector. As of 11:45 a.m. CT., many of the impacted websites were beginning to come back online.
The companies impacted ranged from financial, entertainment, travel, retail and basic web functionality like Amazon Web Services.
The direct cause for the outage remains unknown, however, Akamai global content delivery network has confirmed a widespread issue to its Edge DNS service.
Dozens of high-traffic major websites including FedEx, HBO Max and Amazon were all reportedly down Thursday morning.
At least 44 sites were experiencing significant issues as of 11:30 a.m. CT Thursday, according to DownDetector. As of 11:45 a.m. CT., many of the impacted websites were beginning to come back online.
The companies impacted ranged from financial, entertainment, travel, retail and basic web functionality like Amazon Web Services.
The direct cause for the outage remains unknown, however, Akamai global content delivery network has confirmed a widespread issue to its Edge DNS service.
