An obscure service provider briefly broke the internet Tuesday. It could happen again
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A giant chunk of the internet briefly broke on Tuesday because of an outage at a company most people have probably never heard of before.
Reddit, CNN, Target (CBDY), Amazon (AMZN), a UK government website and countless others all went dark after a technical issue at cloud service provider Fastly. Although the outage was short-lived, it served as a jarring reminder of the internet's fragility. More than that, at a time when concerns are growing about cyber risks to critical physical US infrastructure, the Fastly outage may raise alarms about risks to our digital infrastructure, too.
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