Security News > 2021 > June > Akamai Blames Outage on DDoS Protection Service
CDN, cybersecurity and cloud services provider Akamai has blamed an outage that occurred on Thursday on an issue with its Prolexic DDoS attack protection service.
Akamai's Prolexic Routed is a fully managed service designed to protect an organization's online assets against distributed denial-of-service attacks.
A problem with the service caused the websites of many major companies to become inaccessible.
Akamai said the outage started at 4:20 AM UTC and the service was restored by 8:47 AM UTC. The company noted that only customers using its Routed 3.0 service were impacted, and they should have received an error alert seconds after the issue was detected.
"A routing table value used by this particular service was inadvertently exceeded. The effect was an unanticipated disruption of service."
Fastly moved quickly to address the issue, but the outage hit many major websites, including the ones of news organizations, streaming services, and others.