DEVELOPING: Massive internet outage impacts major companies from Amazon, FedEx, Delta and McDonalds

Jul 22, 2021

DEVELOPING: Massive internet outage impacts major companies from Amazon, FedEx, Delta and McDonalds

Jul 22, 2021

The outages coincided with reports of system disruptions from Akamai and Oracle , two key providers of internet infrastructure services.

Oracle said Thursday afternoon that its outage was the result of Akamai’s service disruption.

“We are monitoring a global issue related to a partner Edge DNS that is impacting access to many internet resources, including Oracle cloud properties,” Oracle said.


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Akamai’s Edge DNS service helps route web browsers to their correct destinations and also provides a security service.

At approximately 12:50 pm ET — less than an hour after the outages began cropping up — Akamai said:

“We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. MORE

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