Outage

Three is the magic number for Alaska Airlines: triple redundancy

Thankfully they only sufffered two outages in 2025. And now it has flown in experts to play with configurations

PaaS + IaaS26 Jan 2026 | 14

Microsoft 365 outage drags on for nearly 10 hours during bad night for North American infra

Down to 364.5 already: Redmond's crappy 2026 continues

PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2026 | 66

Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response

Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too

Networks09 Jan 2026 | 31

Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete

Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling

SaaS09 Jan 2026 | 2

France’s post office partly offline for over 12 hours after 'major network incident'

Might be Le Grinch, or a DDoS, but it's taking a while to fix

Public Sector23 Dec 2025 | 8

NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift

UPDATED Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting

Security21 Dec 2025 | 87

Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths

Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns

Networks19 Dec 2025 | 47

Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide

Customers in 10 of the company’s 23 regions had “operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete.”

PaaS + IaaS18 Dec 2025 | 10

Ofcom comes knocking after BT, Three mobile outages cut 999 access

Watchdog reviews if failures breached availability rules after downtime left millions unable to make calls

Networks16 Dec 2025 | 26

Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance

Updated The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts

Networks05 Dec 2025 | 59

AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles

60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen

PaaS + IaaS27 Nov 2025 | 24

Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain

Exclusive Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink

On-Prem25 Nov 2025 | 58

Cloudflare broke itself – and a big chunk of the Internet – with a bad database query

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fix

Databases19 Nov 2025 | 83

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold

Updated Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

Networks18 Nov 2025 | 154

SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness

Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work

SaaS17 Nov 2025 |

London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot

Updated Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours

Networks13 Nov 2025 | 21

Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'

Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs

PaaS + IaaS05 Nov 2025 | 21

Tanzania back online after politically motivated five-day outage

Net access cut on election eve, resumed after widely-loathed president was sworn in after disputed poll

Public Sector05 Nov 2025 | 4

Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage

Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure

PaaS + IaaS03 Nov 2025 | 13

Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land

It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa

Networks03 Nov 2025 | 50

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Time to put eggs in more than one basket?

PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2025 | 66

DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage

Updated We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time

Off-Prem30 Oct 2025 | 38

Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown

Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services

PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 35

UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity

60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds

PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 17

Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted

UPDATED Internal dependencies again prove problematic

Off-Prem29 Oct 2025 | 51

Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong

Column AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes

PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 56

The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse

Opinion When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella

PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 27

Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown

Updated Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July

On-Prem24 Oct 2025 | 28

With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator

We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys

Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 20

AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists

Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos

PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148

AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle

12 more hours of pain followed initial outage

Off-Prem21 Oct 2025 | 65

Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout

column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 188

AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

Analysis Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location

Off-Prem20 Oct 2025 | 67

Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers

Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page

Networks13 Oct 2025 | 73

Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America

Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption

PaaS + IaaS10 Oct 2025 | 19

No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry

One week after the blitz, beer biz is still stymied

Cybersecurity Month03 Oct 2025 | 15

Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack

Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order

Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2025 |

Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down

And it’s not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum’s lines

Networks01 Oct 2025 | 86

Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline

No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery

Networks01 Oct 2025 | 56

Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer

No personal info gulped as yet, but don't call for help

Cyber-crime29 Sep 2025 | 9

Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline

Asia In Brief PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!

Off-Prem28 Sep 2025 | 5

Tech troubles create aviation chaos on both sides of the Atlantic

‘Cyber-attack’ on ticketing outfit Collins and cable cuts at Dallas ground hundreds of flights

Cyber-crime22 Sep 2025 | 53

Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide

Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back

Networks15 Sep 2025 | 49

Outlook outage over North America, Microsoft scrambles to respond

On the plus side we'll all be getting fewer unwanted emails

SaaS11 Sep 2025 | 8

UK schools give system supplier Bromcom an F for Azure uptime

Management software stumbles at start of term, leaving staff unable to track attendance or reach parents

Public Sector10 Sep 2025 | 24

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up

Storage03 Sep 2025 | 44

IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs

Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services

Off-Prem12 Aug 2025 | 20

Radar problem caused mayhem in UK skies on Wednesday

The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow

Offbeat30 Jul 2025 | 38

Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems

Science30 Jul 2025 | 5

Alaska Airlines grounded itself due to mysterious IT problem

UPDATED Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong

Off-Prem21 Jul 2025 | 8

Cloudflare fesses up to config change that borked internet access for all

Down and out for hour, claims CDN biz. No, say users, more like three

Networks16 Jul 2025 | 33

Outlook takes another sick day

updated Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed

Applications10 Jul 2025 | 48

14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders

Exclusive Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down

Channel04 Jul 2025 | 44

Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage

Millions of customers left speechless

Networks25 Jun 2025 | 28

Iran’s internet goes offline for hours amid claims of ‘enemy abuse’

Bank and crypto outfits hit after Israeli commander mentioned attacks expanding to ‘other areas’

Public Sector19 Jun 2025 | 13

Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections

Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes

Off-Prem16 Jun 2025 | 26