Dozens of consumer websites were reported to be offline or slow to load on Thursday afternoon, creating headaches for people trying to gain access to their accounts, but the issues were resolved shortly after. A range of companies had outages, including financial firms like American Express and Chase, retailers like Amazon and Home Depot and travel companies like Delta Air Lines and Expedia, according to the online platform Downdetector. On its website, Delta said that it was working to resolve “a technology issue” that was affecting “many global websites.”“You can continue to check in for flights at this time at the airport,” Delta’s statement said. The outages were reported as Akamai, one of the largest cloud-computing providers, said it had experienced problems with its DNS service, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether the Akamai outage was the source of all of the issues elsewhere. DNS, one of the most fundamental technologies of the web, helps route requests for a specific URL to the server where that website actually lives.

Source: New York Times July 22, 2021 17:01 UTC