Some of Australia's major media outlets appear to be back online following a major outage linked to cloud services company Fastly that affected websites around the world.
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The outages on Tuesday night affected Nine websites such as the The Age and the Australian Financial Review, which were returning an "Error 503 service unavailable" message.
The Sydney Morning Herald site also appeared to have frozen.
The Guardian also went down, with the organisation posting on Twitter: "The Guardian's website and app are currently being affected by a wider internet outage and will be back as soon as possible."
Fastly said later on Tuesday that "the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied. Customers may experience increased origin load as global services return."
The ABC reported some Australian government websites were also affected.
Outages experienced overseas included Reddit, Amazon, Paypal, Spotify, CNN, the BBC and the New York Times.
Australian Associated Press
