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Did other providers have similar issues to Cloudflare? I only noticed cloudflare sites being particularly down, not other CDNs, but maybe that was selection bias?

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I couldn't connect to anything in the US (I'm in the UK) which broke a large chunk of the internet mainly due to being unable to access Cloudfront.

That’s surprising given CloudFront has a decent number of Points of Presence in London/Europe.

Everything was going haywire for me except the amazon prime movie i was watching, and it was fine.

It was a head scratcher until this mornings news.

Fastly was also down

Youtube and Akamai didn't seem to be.

Youtube and twitch (which I belive use akamai?) was down for me in Norway.

I think there were many routes going haywire and it was different depending on your location.

Youtube is Google's own global CDN, Twitch is Fastly.

Only the main twitch site seems to be using fastly, the streams are powered by AWS' infrastructure as far as I can tell, which would be expected, seeing as how Amazon owns Twitch.

Oddly enough the user interface worked somewhat, it was the streams themselves that failed to load for me (even with mpv+youtube-dl)

Twitch is not using Akamai.

ISPs often have Youtube and Akamai caches forward deployed to their networks, which would reduce the dependancy on big ISPs. Google also buys a lot of its own international links so it can pair directly with or close to ISPs, so big ISP issues don't affect their services as much.

Youtube definitely had problems for me. (Through Mullvad VPN in Switzerland)

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