New Delhi, July 22: Several online platforms, from OTTs food delivering apps, faced outages on Thursday across the globe. Users were not being able to access various internet-based services including those of Zomato, Sony LIV, Paytm, Disney+Hotstar among others. The services have however resumed now. Following the outage, Akamai, internet infrastructure provider confirmed through Twitter that it is facing outage. Several websites across the world were also down making it difficult for users to access them.
Akamai tweeted, “Akamai is experiencing a service disruption. We are actively investigating the issue and will provide an update in 30 minutes.” It added, “We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.”
Major Websites Down:
Major websites including HSBC bank, British Airways and PlayStation network hit by global outage https://t.co/iSG98pDSoK
— BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) July 22, 2021
American Express, Amazon Face Outages:
Dozens of websites were reported to be offline or slow to load on Thursday. The outage included financial firms like American Express and Chase, retailers like Amazon and Home Depot and travel companies like Delta Air Lines and Expedia. https://t.co/v1A0de9VDk
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 22, 2021
Sites of financial institutions such as American Express, HSBC bank were also down. Several others including those of British Airways, PlayStation were also offload or slow to load. According to DownDetector, some affected sites included gaming services Steam and PSN, streaming services like Disney+ Hotstar, Zee5, and e-commerce platforms like Zomato, Amazon, and Paytm were also all affected.
(The above story first appeared on Morning Tidings on Jul 22, 2021 10:47 PM IST. For more news and updates on politics, world, sports, entertainment and lifestyle, log on to our website morningtidings.com).
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