Huge Internet Outage, Some Of World's Biggest Sites Go Down

Separately, Amazon.com Inc's retail website also seemed to face an outage. Amazon was not immediately available to comment.

Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Reuters could not immediately confirm the issue affecting the sites. Fastly said it was investigating "the potential impact to performance with our CDN services," according to its website. Most of Fastly's coverage areas were facing "Degraded Performance", the website showed.