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Still impressed at how quickly Fastly recovers. Kudos.

Even if they fixed it in 20 minutes the chain reaction caused by Fastly being down took much more than 20 minutes to resolve itself.

An example is imgix:

It took them 11 hours to recover from Fastly going down for their claimed 40 minutes.

> We are still seeing increased origin load as a result of the earlier outage from our service provider.

Does this mean that some companies using Fastly could have major costs because of the increased origin load?

Absolutely.