Outage

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?

Off-Prem27 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 | 43

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 | 116

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

Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones

Updated ATMs, 911 calls, and more hit by networking snafu

Networks08 Jul 2022 | 58

Massive telecom outage in Japan kicks 40 million mobile users offline

KDDI advises customers to act like it's 1993 and rediscover landlines and payphones

Networks04 Jul 2022 | 15

Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive

Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back

PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 23

Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada

The chompers belonged to a beaver and offer a parable on the risks of a shared physical layer

Networks15 Jun 2022 | 57

IT downtime not itself going down, power failures most common cause

2022 in a nutshell: Missing SLAs, failing to meet customer expectations

Systems08 Jun 2022 | 4

Internet went offline in Pakistan as protestors marched for ousted prime minister

Two hour outage 'consistent with an intentional disruption to service' said NetBlocks

Networks26 May 2022 | 1

Atlassian comes clean on what data-deleting script behind outage actually did

Who, Us? Day 10 of ongoing disruption: Have some sympathy for admins, it's a difficult read

Devops14 Apr 2022 | 91

At last, Atlassian sees an end to its outage ... in two weeks

Cloud collaboration biz says script deleted data that's so far been restored via backups

Devops11 Apr 2022 | 48

SpaceX's Starlink service suffers brief but global weekend outage

Out of this world service for Musk's satellite broadband

Offbeat11 Apr 2022 | 4

Atlassian adds Analytics, Atlas, Compass to line up

One hopes they can stay online long enough for customers to evaluate

SaaS06 Apr 2022 | 1

CircleCI suffering 'degraded performance' for hours

Updated DevOps platform tells devs it is ‘continuing to work on a longer-term fix’

Off-Prem06 Apr 2022 | 2

GitHub explains outage string in incidents update

It was MySQL, with the resource contention, in the database cluster

Software24 Mar 2022 | 21

Google Maps just got lost for a few hours

Outage tripped up web, native apps while cloud had a wobble

SaaS18 Mar 2022 | 35

It's not WW3. Spotify, Discord, Google Cloud had a wobble

Whoever tripped over the cable, plug it back in, please

Off-Prem08 Mar 2022 | 6

Users report trouble with Azure DevOps services

Updated Thanks Microsoft! Engineers in Europe get to finish early today

Devops15 Feb 2022 | 6

Update 'designed to improve user experience' takes down the Microsoft 365 Admin Portal

Updated Redmond's quality control shines once more

Off-Prem03 Feb 2022 | 53

ISO.org outage hits day 3: Still in the dark as the important matter of bunk bed standards enters discussion

Time to get out ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary

Off-Prem28 Jan 2022 | 19

Multi-day IT systems outage whacks umbrella biz Parasol Group amid fears of a cyber attack

Contractors say they haven't been paid, and are in the dark too

Security14 Jan 2022 | 19

Data centre outfit Interxion hit with outage at central London facility

Updated Users complain: We weren't told that LON1 had done one

On-Prem11 Jan 2022 | 19

Nationwide Building Society's Faster Payments turn into Slower Payments for 2022

Processing goes a bit TITSUP* at UK finance outfit

Networks04 Jan 2022 | 31

AWS power failure in US-EAST-1 region killed some hardware and instances

Some servers and EBS volumes won’t make it back

PaaS + IaaS22 Dec 2021 | 67

Oh no, here we go again, groans the internet as AWS runs into IT problems. Briefly this time

If you're wondering why you couldn't access a website, app, or service for about 30 minutes today, this may be it

PaaS + IaaS15 Dec 2021 | 7

FoI response points to network updates for ambulance outage on England's south coast

Exclusive November incident led to delays in emergency service dispatches

Networks14 Dec 2021 | 17