1 year ago

Issues at Content Delivery Network (CDN) providers have caused several high-profile outages over the past few years — a Cloudflare outage last month impacted a large proportion of its customers; a https://thenewstack.io/what-the-heck-happened-to-the-internet-fastlys-hard-fall-and-quick-recovery/ a year ago knocked out websites ranging from Amazon to CNN; and another https://thenewstack.io/cloudflares-network-shutdown-shows-why-dns-is-a-devops-problem/ in 2020, this time to its 1.1.1.1 DNS service, had a similarly broad impact. Fastly’s answer, Sharma said, is to be as direct and forthcoming as possible if and when issues do come up.

“Over-reliance on one or two providers is what companies should be looking at in de-risking themselves,” he said.

“There’s appliances you could buy, and there’s various smaller providers that you can use.”

“There’s not going to be a world where we’re not going to have any outages,” Boost said.