International News Websites Including CNN, The Guardian & Others Not Opening, Cloud Server Crashes

The international news portals are showing error when being trying to accessed in India.

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New Delhi: Several news websites of foreign media houses including CNN International, The New York Times, The Guardians and others were not opening in India. The aforementioned news portals are showing error when being trying to accessed in India.

Even other global websites such as The Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC, TIME Magazine and others were showing error while opening. 

These sites were showing '503 error' while trying to access. 

Some reports suggest that websites of tech major Amazon, Reddit and even the UK government website suffered an outage.

However, website of international news agencies such as Reuters, Bloomberg, The Associated Press and others are working fine. 

Most of the websites are now up and running. According to reports, a common cloud service provider suffered a crash leading to the global outage.

"A massive internet outage, affecting websites including The Guardian, http://Gov.uk , Amazon, and Reddit has been traced to a failure in a content delivery network (CDN) run by Fastly," UK Technology Editor at The Guardian Alex Hern tweeted.