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
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
ZOE COVID Study app starts the week with a lockdown of its own Symptom tracker suffers Monday morning borkage Off-Prem13 Dec 2021 | 9
AWS wobbles in US East region causing widespread outages Updated 'We have identified the root cause and we are actively working towards recovery' - which now appears almost complete Off-Prem07 Dec 2021 | 54
Indian government committee slams 'gross misuse' of internet shutdowns – even in Kashmir Officials use them for mundane matters, not big emergencies as laws intend Legal07 Dec 2021 | 5
Microsoft 365 admins 'flooded' with bulk and bogus notifications for over an hour Updated Recent change to cloud services suspected as cause, any real messes will be advised in email only for now SaaS03 Dec 2021 | 11
BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day Updated Call that an outage? Now this is an outage Off-Prem12 Nov 2021 | 49
Oh, Comcast. An Xfinity customer and working from home? Maybe not this morning Where were you during the Great Comcast Outage? Off-Prem09 Nov 2021 | 15
Weeks after Red Bee Media's broadcast centre fell over, Channel 4 is still struggling with subtitles Updated Got a Disaster Recovery plan? Ever tested it? You probably should... Systems19 Oct 2021 | 47
Facebook, Instagram finally end days of uptime by returning to some downtime Brave of Zuckerberg to switch to a three-day working week Personal Tech08 Oct 2021 | 31
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP Networks04 Oct 2021 | 169
AWS US East region endures eight-hour wobble thanks to 'Stuck IO' in Elastic Block Store EC2 instances were impaired, Redshift hurt, and some of you may still struggle to access your data PaaS + IaaS28 Sep 2021 | 16
Fastly CEO opens up on that June outage that crippled so many websites Admits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network Networks05 Aug 2021 |
Xero says accounting software users were locked out by login glitch, not nefarious deeds Issue has been resolved and your data is 'secure', claims SaaS outfit SaaS28 Jul 2021 | 1
'Login infrastructure issue' blamed as sustained Xero outage threatens payrolls Accountancy software goes TITSUP* as biz users can't invoice customers nor see who's paid their bills SaaS27 Jul 2021 | 32
Akamai Edge DNS goes down, takes a chunk of the internet with it Updated If you're wondering why some websites disappeared today PaaS + IaaS22 Jul 2021 | 37
What knocked out Brit cloud slinger Memset for the night? A busted fibre cable upstream of its data centre, apparently Updated Multi-hour outage and customers left in the dark PaaS + IaaS22 Jun 2021 | 14
Not very sage rage over UK pay outage: Opayo says 'ohheyno' as payment processor's payments stop processing Glitch leaves punters unable to pay for their goods and services Off-Prem17 Jun 2021 | 9
Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee' Feature There was no big bang – and it could happen to you Software12 Jun 2021 | 85
AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor Updated Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark Off-Prem11 Jun 2021 | 31
Global Fastly outage takes down many on the wibbly web – but El Reg remains standing Updated 'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline Off-Prem08 Jun 2021 | 103
Azure services fall over in Europe, Microsoft works on fix Updated One of these days we'll automate these outage articles with some kind of AI PaaS + IaaS20 May 2021 | 29
That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix 'We feel bad about what happened' Networks19 May 2021 | 68
If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can Updated Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited Off-Prem12 May 2021 | 6
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS SaaS12 May 2021 | 29