What is Fastly – and did a cyber attack cause the world’s biggest websites to go down?
Swathes of the internet including Amazon, Reddit and many news outlets went offline on Tuesday following a glitch affecting a relatively obscure cloud computing company. Dozens of major websites and hundreds overall were rendered inaccessible when Fastly started experiencing issues, leaving the likes of the Government’s gov.uk domain, streaming services Twitch and Spotify unavailable for…