Zomato, Paytm, Others Face Temporary Disruption After Akamai Outage
- ByAyushi Ray | July 23, 2021
Zomato, Paytm, others face temporary disruption after Akamai outage. While some of the websites showed ‘can’t be reached’, others reflected ‘DNS failure’. A number of other international websites also suffered outages. In a tweet around 10 PM IST, Akamai said it was experiencing a service disruption. It said it was actively investigating the issue, and clarified that this was not the result of a cyberattack on its platform. In a later update at 10.42 PM IST, Akamai said it has implemented a fix for the issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. “We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated,” it added. In a later update at 10.42 PM IST, Akamai said it has implemented a fix for the issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations. “We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated,” it added
Fintech major Paytm had tweeted that “some Paytm services are affected due to global outage at Akamai”. In a later tweet, Paytm said all its services “are back online and working smoothly like before.”Zomato too attributed the outage on its app to the “widespread Akamai outage”. “Phew! We are back!” read its latest tweet. Disney+Hotstar also said they’re trying to fix the glitch. “Due to an unexpected issue, you will not be able to access your favourite content. Our team is working on fixing this at the earliest. We regret the inconvenience caused,” the OTT platform said in response to a post on Twitter.
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