Websites back online after Fastly-linked glitch takes down internet

High traffic sites, including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal & Spotify, rumble back to life after Fastly linked disruption

Thousands of government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after getting hit by a widespread hour-long outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly.
 
High traffic sites — including Reddit, Amazon, CNN, Paypal, Spotify, Al Jazeera Media Network, the New York Times, Financial Times, the Guardian, and Bloomberg News — went down, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
 
They came back up after outages that ranged from a few minutes to around an hour. “Our global network is coming back online,” Fastly said.
 
One of the world’s most widely-used cloud-based content