Internet outage: which websites and services were hit by Fastly issue

From retailers such as Amazon to government information portals, the service interruption took its toll

The internet outage caused by a fault with cloud computing service Fastly took down thousands of websites in multiple countries, affecting governments and businesses in sectors ranging from media to online retail and telecoms.

The interruption was relatively brief, lasting slightly more than an hour in most cases and occurring mid-morning UK time, before many people in the US will have woken up.