A major technical glitch causes a number of the largest international websites to stop

Many important and large sites and applications worldwide have been down for a while this morning, which has sparked a lot of interest during the past hours, and new reports say that it is related to problems with the service provider Fastly that affected the global web,

CNN says Fastly helps improve the time it takes for websites to load and provides other services to Internet sites, apps and platforms - including a large global network of servers A number of popular websites including Amazon, Twitch, Reddit, CNN, The New York Times, and other major websites have been suspended, as the outages began around 5:30 AM EST and lasted for more than an hour

The Verge noted that the technical glitch also affected UK government websites, so British citizens were unable to renew passports, apply for tax breaks, or obtain driver's licenses during the outage Fastly has not fully commented on the issues other than the outage message on the company status page It then indicated that the problem had been identified and fixed