Internet infrastructure company Akamai has said it is experiencing service disruption amid outages of major websites including Home Depot, UPS, Delta and many more - but now says it has solved the problem.
The company has “implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.”
It had previously stated that it was “experiencing a service disruption” and would “provide an update in 30 minutes”, according to a tweet it put out at 5:32pm GMT. That sets the time for its update at 6:02pm GMT, although Akamai issued a fix before then.
It remains unclear what the cause of the outage was. The Independent has reached out to Akamai for more information.
The outage took out a huge number of websites. Airlines including Delta, online stores such as Amazon, games including Call of Duty, streaming services such as HBO Max and a range of banks were unavailable, according to tracking website Down Detector.
Steam and the PlayStation Network were also down, with users struggling to connect.
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