What Is Fastly? How Outage at Cloud Computing Firm Brought Down the Internet
http://www.newsweek.com/what-fastly-cloud-computing-internet-crash-1598539
A global website crash that occurred in the early hours of Tuesday morning is widely reported to have been caused by issues at Fastly, an internet content delivery network used by many major websites.
Social media erupted with reports of websites, including Amazon, eBay, Reddit, and more, all being down after around 6:00 a.m. EDT.