Akamai Technologies Inc., which handles web content delivery, said it has resolved an issue that caused a service disruption for several widely used websites. The company said the disruption was caused when a software configuration update triggered a flaw in the system that directs browsers to websites.
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The incident wasn’t related to a cyberattack, the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company said, and it lasted for as long as an hour.
According to downdetector.com, earlier in the day, Internet users had accessed Amazon.com Inc., Home Depot Inc., Airbnb Inc. and United Parcel Service Inc. Reported widespread issues with major sites including, which monitors web outages.Akamai’s shares fell less than 1% to about $117.
Akamai is known to provide protection against distributed denial-of-service attacks, otherwise known as DDoS, in which a website is overwhelmed with junk traffic. The product that impressed, Akamai’s Edge DNS, provides cloud-based domain hosting and security services for both on-premises networks and large-scale data centers.