CenturyLink's 7-Hour Outage Hamstrings Amazon, Hulu, PlayStation & Others [telecom]

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After partial outages in the past couple of weeks, a CenturyLink IP misconfiguration wreaked havoc across the global network and knocked out multiple providers, including Cloudflare, Amazon, Reddit, Hulu and others.

By Sumeet Wadhwani

Internet service provider CenturyLink suffered a major outage on Sunday in the U.S. that affected widely used online services. The outage, which struck down Cloudflare, the PlayStation Network, EA, Xbox Live, Reddit, Blizzard, Steam, Amazon, Hulu, Duo Security, and others, was caused by a problem of a third-party transit provider -- CenturyLink. The problem caused HTTP 5xx class errors like HTTP 522,