You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9
Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 40
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 24
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify Biz races to fix broken systems Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 11
OpenAI tackles 'major outage' hitting ChatGPT APIs Final update Meltdown apparently resolved, capacity issues still popping up, as Claude hits a resource wall AI + ML08 Nov 2023 | 5
Major telco outage leaves millions of Australians disconnected Communication minister advises businesses to “keep receipts” Networks08 Nov 2023 | 36
Overheating datacenter stopped 2.5 million bank transactions Running infrastructure in the tropics has its challenges – but so do failed disaster recovery plans On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 20
Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage A little peek behind the control panel, analytics curtain On-Prem07 Nov 2023 | 26
Cybersecurity snafu sends British Library back to the Dark Ages Internet, phone lines, websites, and more went down on Saturday morning Cyber-crime31 Oct 2023 | 15
Microsoft admits 'power issue' downed Azure services in West Europe Updated Work ongoing to manually recover some storage nodes PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2023 | 16
Down and out: Barclays Bank takes unplanned digital detox, customers not invited Account holders reach for telephone as mobile and web services crash Off-Prem17 Oct 2023 | 33
Gas supplier blames 'rogue' code for Channel Island outage CEO claims bug had millions-to-one chance of disrupting supply – but it did Software13 Oct 2023 | 67
Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard Exclusive US govt confirms outage, leaves feline in quantum state of uncertainty Public Sector05 Oct 2023 | 96
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
Oracle Cloud, Netsuite, and Azure go down, hard, Down Under Updated Storm that passed through Sydney saw clouds sleep early and struggle to wake up PaaS + IaaS30 Aug 2023 | 12
UK flights disrupted by 'technical issue' with air traffic computer system British Bank Holiday blues as flight plans have to be filed by hand Offbeat28 Aug 2023 | 159
Cisco's Duo Security suffers major authentication outage Updated Provides complete security by not letting anyone login Off-Prem21 Aug 2023 | 12
Bank of Ireland outage sees customers queue for 'free' cash – or maybe any cash Reports police called to control ATM frenzy after €1,000 added to accounts, by leprechauns maybe Off-Prem16 Aug 2023 | 79
Where are we now, Microsoft 362.5? Europe reports outages Redmond says problems stemmed from a datacenter in Germany, though UK spared the worst of it OSes20 Jun 2023 | 16
Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure Telemetry revealed 'anomalous spike in HTTP requests' says post-incident report PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2023 | 6
Microsoft battles through two 365 outages in one day Updated Windows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it SaaS06 Jun 2023 | 36
This typo sparked a Microsoft Azure outage Errant code fix deleted entire servers rather than snapshots of database Devops03 Jun 2023 | 89
Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong Updated Borked SANs, not a security SNAFU, identified as the cause. Services are back, but Linux VMs must reboot PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 23
Twitter Spaces groans under weight of Ron DeSantis and Elon Musk's egos It should really take more than half a million people to melt your servers Personal Tech25 May 2023 | 31
Hey Apple, what good is a status page if you only update it after the outage? It's not just Cupertino, most status pages aren't what they claim to be Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 21
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight Networks11 May 2023 | 10
Where are we now – Microsoft 363? Cloud suite suffers another outage Final update Some customers unable to use the search function for online services like Teams and Outlook SaaS24 Apr 2023 | 20
Microsoft not a Teams player as admin center, 365 service suffer partial outage Final update It’s not the caching. There’s no way it’s the caching. It was the caching SaaS20 Apr 2023 | 22
Tencent said to have demoted and fired tech bosses after brief outages Think the news has execs at Microsoft 365 or AWS quaking in their boots? Networks14 Apr 2023 | 10
Microsoft App Center has been down for nearly a day, and no word on when it'll end Updated Redmond claims service is (partially) restored, some users still stuck Software04 Apr 2023 | 9
Parts of UK booted offline as Virgin Media suffers massive broadband outage Updated Even managed to kick its own website into touch in spectacular fail Networks04 Apr 2023 | 139
Amtrak back on track after server breakdown forces dozens of cancellations Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training Software27 Mar 2023 | 7
Outage rates fall, but major ones will cost more. Oh and don't bank on SLAs Not what cost-cutting companies want to hear right now. Maybe they should hang onto those engineers? CxO27 Mar 2023 | 9
Outage-hit Twitter muddies violent speech policy No more dog whistles or empty threats for caustic tweeps, but what does it matter if no one can post? Personal Tech01 Mar 2023 | 34
Dish multi-day outage rolls on as ransomware fears grow Techies 'hard at work' and all of that Security27 Feb 2023 | 3
Phở no! Vietnam's last working submarine cable glitches out Five from five take a dive, but connections are still alive Off-Prem23 Feb 2023 | 14
Outage-ous: Twitter OKs cannabis ads, then goes up in smoke What happened to not getting high on your own supply? Offbeat16 Feb 2023 | 44
Oracle NetSuite datacenter plunges offline for a day, customers warned of data loss Updated Anything could happen in a half hour Off-Prem15 Feb 2023 | 10
The Twitpocalypse may have begun, as datacenter migration reportedly founders Glitches hit Elon’s social media mess, as it announces 4,000-character tweets for paying customers Off-Prem09 Feb 2023 | 74
WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere Networks30 Jan 2023 | 66
Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down Redmond rolls back network change after cloud services dip in sympathy with profits Networks25 Jan 2023 | 114
Massive outage grounded US flights because someone accidentally deleted a file Our lives are in your hands, and you have butterfingers? Software21 Jan 2023 | 41
FAA grounds all US departures after NOTAM goes down Updated 'Damaged database file' blamed, no evidence of cyberattack found, as air travel chaos continues Networks11 Jan 2023 | 55
Exchange Online and Microsoft Teams went down in APAC because Microsoft broke itself Updated Legacy process overwhelmed infrastructure, brought ten hours of trouble SaaS02 Dec 2022 | 34
Blazing South Korean datacenter operator raided by cops, blames its own batteries Asia In Brief PLUS: Australia boosts data breach fines; India outlet drops Meta allegations; AWS spices up Thailand's cloud; and more Off-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 2
Kakao CEO quits, South Korea hits emergency button after dire datacenter blaze Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for Off-Prem19 Oct 2022 | 5
Datacenter fire takes out South Korea's top two web giants Sub-par disaster recovery plans leave Naver and Kakao with savage service interruptions Off-Prem17 Oct 2022 | 7
UK hospitals fall back on pen and paper after Oracle Cerner outage Staff couldn't access patient records and paper stocks were running low Databases12 Oct 2022 | 11
US to relax restrictions for tech companies in Iran With censorship looming, US wants to bring internet, communications companies into fray Networks26 Sep 2022 | 6
Iran blocks Whatsapp, Instagram as citizens protest death of Mahsa Amini Also: New 'magnet of threats' attackers and FBI has details on Iran's online incursion into Albania Security23 Sep 2022 | 16
Datacenter outages are costing more, $1m+ failures now common And operators not getting any better at saving power – or watching the water their bit barns drink On-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 5
Google says some AI call center agents took the morning off Updated Replace unreliable people with tireless cloudy software, they said … AI + ML20 Sep 2022 | 8
Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 16
Major IT outage forces UK emergency call handlers to use 'pen and paper' Updated Suspected cyberattack at Advanced takes down part of server estate that hosted range of apps On-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 38
Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg? Off-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 115
After config error takes down Rogers, it promises to spend billions on reliability Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told Networks25 Jul 2022 | 20
Hospital IT melts in heatwave, leaving doctors without patient records Clinical systems 10 years old, new software due to go live next year On-Prem22 Jul 2022 | 21
Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center Updated Remember: telephones exist, are handy for collaboration, and usually work SaaS21 Jul 2022 | 51
Good news: Twitter fell over. Bad news: It's working again Updated All-too-brief reminder of quieter times as overcapacity turns to full-on outage Networks14 Jul 2022 | 21