Akamai DNS Massive Global Internet Outage Takes Down Major Websites, Online Services
In a System Status, Akamai has acknowledged the incident as an “Edge DNS Service Incident”.
Bleeping Computer reported that, “Akamai is investigating an ongoing outage affecting many major websites and online services, including Steam, the PlayStation Network, Newegg, Cloudflare, AWS, Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.”
They have mitigated the incident as of July 22, 2021-17:09UTC.
According to the System Status on Akamai’s site:
“We are aware of an emerging issue with the Edge DNS service.
“We are actively investigating the issue. If you have questions or are experiencing impact due to this issue, please contact Akamai Technical Support. In the interest of time, we are providing you the most current information available, which is subject to changes, corrections, and updates.”
via Akamai