By Jack Clark, The Register
Updated A major transatlantic cable linking the EU and the US appears to have been cut, causing major problems for cloud operators.
Global frontend security service Cloudflare and huge hoster DigitalOcean both reported significant connectivity problems on Monday as a consequence of a fault in the Telia transatlantic cable.
Most large internet companies route traffic through multiple transit providers, so a single cable going out isn't a fatal problem, but it does tend to cause some short-term disruption, as was the case here.
