If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage Updated It's not DNS. There's no way it can be DNS... It was DNS SaaS01 Apr 2021 | 37
Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder Updated Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants On-Prem10 Mar 2021 | 63
Federal Reserve falls over in massive hours-long tech outage, knocks down US inter-bank transfer system Few details beyond 'operational error' Systems24 Feb 2021 | 12
Microsoft Teams still on mute: Vid conf system crashes, 'potential networking issue' blamed Updated So, Zoom again then? Software17 Feb 2021 | 11
Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage Updated Turning smart homes into dumb ones Edge + IoT03 Feb 2021 | 79
AWS reveals it broke itself by exceeding OS thread limits, sysadmins weren’t familiar with some workarounds First solution: run on bigger servers to reduce chatter in the Kinesis fleet SaaS30 Nov 2020 | 66
A year of software testing appears wasted as ‘upgrade’ shutters Australian stock exchange on its debut Trading proves a tricky combination Software17 Nov 2020 | 20
YouTube to world: Move along, nothing to see here … because we’re having an outage Cute animals rendered useless for two hours as streaming site got the wobbles Personal Tech12 Nov 2020 | 8
123 Bork? Six-day DNS record-edit outage at domain name flinger 123 Reg enrages users It's not DNS. It can't be DNS. It's actually a TITSUP* Networks11 Nov 2020 | 39
Network driver issue shaves 12 more hours off Microsoft's '365' infrastructure, and yeah, it was Exchange Online again Company famed for iffy patches demonstrates its email prowess SaaS06 Nov 2020 | 34
Yes, it's down again: Microsoft's Office 365 takes yet another mid-week tumble, Azure also unwell Updated Come back, Word 97, all is forgiven SaaS07 Oct 2020 | 67
Wisepay 'outage' is actually the school meal payments biz trying to stop an intruder from stealing customer card details We pulled entire website to halt attack, says spokesman Security07 Oct 2020 | 17
Yak-yak app Slack cracks, flacks gobsmacked: Can this bug be whacked or will code be rolled back? IRC-for-the-2020s up and down as it catches a bad case of the Mondays Software05 Oct 2020 | 6
CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs Networks31 Aug 2020 | 25
Mysterious metadata monster swamped Google’s blobs and crashed its cloud Parts of the GCloud are more robust and survived, but the fix is not yet in for others SaaS25 Aug 2020 | 6
Oh dear, what a pity! It seems you can't join the directors at the Zoom meeting today Not great news for students going back to school, however SaaS24 Aug 2020 | 8
Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet – though it was behind a massive jump in outages Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February Networks05 Aug 2020 | 8
Smoke on the Tyne: Blaze at BT exchange causes major outages across North East England Flames contained – but expect slow 'staged restoration' of services Networks23 Jul 2020 | 35
Worldpay stops turning in the UK, leaving trail of thoroughly miffed retailers and customers Payments provider cops to 'processing issues' caused by 'equipment change' Networks20 Jul 2020 | 12
GitHub is just like all of us: The week has just started but it needed 4 whole hours of downtime Plus: New availability report highlights database issues SaaS13 Jul 2020 | 19
Smile? Not bloody likely: Day 6 of wobbly services and still no hint to UK online bank's customers about what's actually wrong Updated Tech team still 'investigating,' no ETA of fix SaaS10 Jul 2020 | 97
Working from home on Virgin Media's broadband? Too bad. Outage hits English capital Updated ISP and London users are both TITSUP* (Too Irritated To Smile at Usual Platitudes) Networks25 Jun 2020 | 38
Wobbly Wednesday whacks IBM as 30 cloud services take unplanned naps UPDATED All sorts of services all over the world but IBM says only its console got cross SaaS25 Jun 2020 | 4
FCC boss orders probe into 'unacceptable' T-Mobile US outage after carrier plays dog-ate-my-homework card Yup, the old 'leased fiber line broke' excuse Networks17 Jun 2020 | 7
There's no accounting for TITSUP*: Beancounters bemoan Sage cloudy sync software outage Sage Drive enters its third day of wobbles and woe SaaS16 Jun 2020 | 25
Microsoft 365 and Azure outage struck Australia and New Zealand just as business rocked up for a new week Updated Microsoft mentioned 'potential token issue that may be preventing users from authenticating' and went away after around three hours SaaS15 Jun 2020 | 12
IBM blames 'external' network provider, incorrect routing, traffic flood for its two-hour cloud outage No data loss or attack detected. But aren't hyperscale clouds supposed to be more resilient than this? SaaS11 Jun 2020 | 15
From off-prem to just off: IBM Cloud goes down planet-wide so hard even the status page didn't work Updated Widespread outage rolled for two-plus hours, incident report mentions 'broad network incident that is impacting many cloud services' SaaS09 Jun 2020 | 29
Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble Updated First financial TITSUP* of June goes to... Networks01 Jun 2020 | 25
Photostopped: Adobe Cloud evaporates in mass outage. Hope none of you are on a deadline, eh? More than dozen services down, customers left unable to work SaaS27 May 2020 | 65
Azure India wobbles due to ‘underlying physical datacentre issue’ Storage and networking recover from overnight brownout, compute still in trouble after 12 hours SaaS19 May 2020 | 8
'Malware' takes Aussie money-manager MyBudget down for five days Updated Bills going unpaid by service that exists to pay bills Security14 May 2020 |
It's not you, it's Slack: Chat app falls down – and at such a very convenient moment Updated Experienced ‘degraded performance’ earlier in the day, now seems to just be TITSUP Software13 May 2020 | 7
Gmail and Outlook sitting in a tree, not t-a-l-k-i-n-g to me or thee Thunderbird also affected as legacy email authentication enjoys a Monday wobble Software04 May 2020 | 31
European programmers take an extended lunch break as GitHub goes TITSUP* again All fixed now so get back to work Devops23 Apr 2020 | 5
Cloudflare outage caused by techie pulling out the wrong cables Single point of failure, imprecise instructions and not enough labels are a bad, bad, mix Networks16 Apr 2020 | 90
Outage hits some Google Cloud services, error rate curve flattens and they're coming back Good luck if you're a user of Cloud SQL, Cloud Data Fusion, or Cloud Composer SaaS31 Mar 2020 | 2
From Gmail to Gfail: Google's G-Suite topples over for unlucky netizens, rights itself Updated East Coast looks to be hardest hit. C'mon, Chocolate Factory, we're relying on you to pull us through SaaS26 Mar 2020 | 13
If there's something strange in Symantec's neighborhood, who you gonna call? Not Broadcom, it seems: Systems go down, cut off customers And now back on their feet after global two-hour wobble Security25 Mar 2020 | 7
Microsoft Teams gets off to a wobbly start as the world and its cat starts working from home Hello? Is this thing on? (message failed to send) SaaS16 Mar 2020 | 38
Google reveals the wheels almost literally fell off one of its cloudy server racks Crushed rollers sent rack into the red until techies solved wheely obscure problem SaaS16 Mar 2020 | 102
Azure admins' cold sweat likely caused by a 'isolated' power problems that browned out West Central USA region VMs went down but the lights are back on, and someone's home to fix it all SaaS15 Mar 2020 | 16
Hackers? Leap day? Nope, just plain old internet hysteria took down stock-trading-for-noobs app RobinHood DNS overload, as usual, blamed for two-day outage Networks05 Mar 2020 | 15
Blow me down with a feather, well, storage server software update gone awry: Nest vid streams go dark for 16 hours Google so sorry after devices fly the coop in multi-hour outage Storage25 Feb 2020 | 17
Day 4 of outage: UK's Manchester police deploy exciting new carbon-based method to record crime It may or not involve office stationery Security07 Feb 2020 | 53
Microsoft Teams starts February with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP* Updated It was indeed the expired certificate wotdunnit. Popcorn time! Software03 Feb 2020 | 47
Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? Networks31 Jan 2020 | 104
'No BS' web host Gandi lives up to half of its motto... Some customer data wiped out in storage server meltdown Updated 0xdeadbeef SaaS09 Jan 2020 | 70
Y2K? How about Y2.02K as Lloyds suffers its second TITSUP* of the year Faster is the new slower where payments are concerned at Black Horse (Down) bank On-Prem02 Jan 2020 | 16
UK's Virgin Media celebrates the end of 2019 with a good, old fashioned TITSUP* Connectivity Cluedo: It was the hi-vis, in the building site, with the digger Networks23 Dec 2019 | 76
'Tis the season to be wobbly: HSBC online and mobile banking services suffer not one but two major outages in 12 hours Updated Luckily, it's not the night before Christmas. Actually, it's worse On-Prem20 Dec 2019 | 33
Totally Sardonic Bank: Well, it must be, to have a TITSUP* the same week as THAT report Updated Has learned from its mistakes... again On-Prem22 Nov 2019 | 37
You're flowing it wrong: Bad network route between Microsoft, Apple blamed for Azure, O365 MFA outage Postmortem report emerges for last week's partial downtime Networks25 Oct 2019 | 20
Good guy, Microsoft: Multi-factor auth outage gives cloudy Office, Azure users a surprise three-day weekend Updated Redmond's sign-on system is so secure, nobody can get in SaaS18 Oct 2019 | 22
Three UK goes TITSUP*: Down and out for 10 hours and counting Updated First 123-Reg, now prominent Brit telco. Who's next? Networks17 Oct 2019 | 83
In solidarity with its broken email hosting, 123-Reg's '24/7' support lines also fall over Updated Domain-name slinger keeps mum amid hours-long multi-service outage On-Prem16 Oct 2019 | 26
I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website Switchzilla's online presence beset by mysterious outages Networks11 Oct 2019 | 27
We sense a great disturbance in the Salesforce: File-slinging feature breaks down for more than 12 hours It felt as if millions of SaaS customers suddenly cried out in frustration, then headed off for the weekend early SaaS20 Sep 2019 | 6
Yahoo! customers! wake! up! to! borked! email! (Yes! people! still! actually! use! it!) Updated FFS! SaaS05 Sep 2019 | 73
AWS celebrates Labor Day weekend by roasting customer data in US-East-1 BBQ Postmortem report: Power outage knackered instances, volumes for unlucky punters SaaS04 Sep 2019 | 33
How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links Networks20 Aug 2019 | 53
Cloudflare comes clean on crashing a chunk of the web: How small errors and one tiny bit of code led to a huge mess The culprit? .*(?:.*=.*) SaaS12 Jul 2019 | 25