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Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage

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I see this message when visiting twitch.tv:

    Fastly error: unknown domain: www.twitch.tv.
    Details: cache-syd10136-SYD

Or alternately this one:

    Error 503 Service Unavailable
    Service Unavailable
    Guru Mediation:
    Details: cache-syd10146-SYD 1623148640 1040952784
    Varnish cache server

Certainly not ideal for a group of websites that huge. I wonder if this will be one of those cases where I get to read an interesting technical write-up of the outage.

Parts of GitHub, Amazon, Stripe and Twitter are down too. I'm sure these companies have considered this downside to outsourcing critical infrastructure.

It would be interesting to see estimations on the man-hour cost of even a short outage.

Somebody has to pay for this, definitely Fastly. I want a full investigation and an elaborate post mortem of the most intricate of details.

No stone unturned, lots of people lost billions because of this.

Who makes billions per hour through their website? (but apparently couldn't be bothered to prepare for this?)

Who is talking about a 'website'? The Fastly CDN is their main product no?

I hope you're not suggesting these companies Shopify, Pinterest, Etsy, Paypal, Stripe, Coinbase etc didn't lose any revenue then? I would argue this is now collectively in the billions.

None of those lost billions just because they were not available for an hour. (and if anybody did, really bad risk management on their part)

So you're saying companies losing huge ad budgets for an hour across all these websites, traders not being able to place trades, withdraw funds or close their positions from their trading accounts and consumers not being able to purchase anything from 1 million+ Shopify shops worldwide does not amount to billions lost?

Please stop this naive outlook.

Your original statement was that “lots of people lost billions” which seems patently absurd taken literally.

Now you’ve scaled it down to a collective loss of income across all companies impacted in the billions, which is at least plausible, but you can hardly blame people for treating your original statement less than seriously.

billions lost either way regardless of how you interpret it, and I expect Fastly to have a good reason as to why these popular clients and websites should continue paying for this CDN service.

I look forward to this extremely detailed post mortem from them.

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