off-prem Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours Maintenance mistake caused immediate issues and took out 27 services
off prem Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes UPDATED: Single datacenter and just three services taken down by ‘upstream’ power problem and failure of diesel generators
AI and ML Chinese President Xi Jinping wants emergency response systems to keep AI in check PLUS: Korean e-tailer Coupang's warehouse burns and burns; Australian Uni expels VMware; India's first private rocket flies first time; And more!
networks NTP server that traveled back in time caused massive Aussie mobile outage Telstra skipped a patch, didn’t record changes, had no idea it was an accident waiting to happen
off-prem AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
Virtualization Google Cloud's VMware service loses resilience due to a dud update As VMware itself warns of critical flaw in its load balancer
OFF-PREM Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim
Networks Telstra outage: Failed emergency services calls, train chaos, payment systems down Telco says issues all sorted, but transport networks expected to be disrupted well into Thursday
networks Germany went off the rails as wireless outage saw all trains cancelled Unexplained GSM-R failure at Deutsche Bahn caused confusion and delay
Off-PREM Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later PLUS: Japan’s space truck is back in business; Zoho's DIY servers; Record tech exports for Korea, and more!
AI and ML Claude celebrates Anthropic's stock market float with blockbuster ... outage Chatbot has no respect for timing of its maker's financial announcement
Networks Russian oligarch's financial network crashed thanks to a crank and a cleaner What a wind-up!
DevOps GitHub Actions outage told devs 'your account is suspended' Another day, another GitHub wobble - but the service keeps growing
Networks Iran slowly reconnects to the global internet Traffic floods back, without much of an explanation
Off-Prem Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage This is the service we get when we spend $10m plus? asks automated code deployment outfit
UPDATED AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
off-prem IBM Cloud evaporates as datacenter loses power Customers say services were down for at least 4 hours, while status page showed no issues
Networks Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about
Software Hashicorp co-founder Mitchell Hashimoto says GitHub ‘no longer a place for serious work’ Bemoans frequent outages that mean he’ll move Ghostty elsewhere
Systems Australia to datacenter operators: BYO energy, pay your way, build green, or stay home PLUS: Singtel’s triple outage; 17,000 counterfeit hard drives seized; Tech wages shift across Asia; And more!
Networks Scottish broadband service looking a bit dreich, says UK outage study Subscribers north of the border suffer the most long-running failures per £100 spent
PaaS + IaaS Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US Big Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again
Networks Facebook went down for about three hours, interrupting your poking and Meta's ads business Go outside and smell some flowers
SaaS Claude having artificially intelligent hiccups and access lockouts for over two hours Developers ponder the horror of having to actually write code
PaaS + IaaS Amazon's vibe-coding tool Kiro reportedly vibed too hard and brought down AWS Bezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls'
Off-Prem X users howl into the void as timelines fail to load 'All systems operational,' says status page – real life suggests otherwise
PaaS + IaaS 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 + IaaS 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
Networks Iran’s internet goes dark amid mass protests, reports of violent government response Outages hit Russia and Ukraine, too
SaaS Snowflake buys Observe to make 'Days Since Last Outage' counters obsolete Nice idea, because its own cloudy services keep wobbling
Public Sector 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
Security NIST contemplated pulling the pin on NTP servers after blackout caused atomic clock drift Time signals shifted by a tiny amount that only very sensitive users would find upsetting
Networks Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn’t escalate their concerns
PaaS + IaaS 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.”
Networks 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
Networks Cloudflare suffers second outage in as many months during routine maintenance The Reg is still standing (this time) despite our best efforts
PaaS + IaaS 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
On-Prem Airbus: We were hours from pausing production in Spain Power outage in Iberia forced datacenter contingency rethink
Databases 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
Networks Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along
SaaS SAP portal outage raises questions over vendor's cloud readiness Disruption left customers unable to track support cases, upgrades, or patching work
Networks London left buffering as Hyperoptic backup link refuses to boot Broadband provider says damaged fiber and dormant failover path knocked customers offline for nearly 24 hours
PaaS + IaaS Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event' Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
Public Sector 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
PaaS + IaaS Alaska Air phones a friend to find out what caused massive October outage Accenture to poke around the beleaguered airline's IT infrastructure
Networks Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa
PaaS + IaaS Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe Time to put eggs in more than one basket?
Off-Prem DNS downing clouds is boring: IBM Cloud is experiencing a quantum computer outage We’re guessing that turning it off and on again won’t help given qubits can be on and off at the same time
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services
PaaS + IaaS UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds
Off-Prem Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted Internal dependencies again prove problematic
PaaS + IaaS Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes
PaaS + IaaS The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
On-Prem Alaska Airlines grounded by mystery IT meltdown Failure at primary datacenter leaves planes parked and passengers angry, second incident since July
Off-Prem With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys
PaaS + IaaS 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
Off-Prem AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle 12 more hours of pain followed initial outage
PaaS + IaaS Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
Off-Prem AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location
Networks Vodafone keels over, cutting off millions of mobile and broadband customers Outage knocks out phones, broadband – even telco's own status page
PaaS + IaaS Microsoft 364 trips over its own network settings in North America Outage blamed on misconfigured infrastructure as users report hour-long disruption
Cybersecurity Month No suds for you! Asahi brewery attack leaves Japanese drinkers dry One week after the blitz, beer biz is still stymied
Cybersecurity Month Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order
Networks Texas man accidentally shoots cable, brings internet down And it’s not the first time gunfire has cut Spectrum’s lines
Networks Taliban impose tele-ban and take Afghanistan offline No internet or phones, which means no banks or commercial aviation, but lots more misery
Cyber-crime Asahi runs dry as online attackers take down Japanese brewer No personal info gulped as yet, but don't call for help
Off-Prem Datacenter fire takes 647 South Korean government services offline PLUS: US court grounds China’s DJI; India requires 2FA for most payments; Great Firewall busters launch VPN; and more!
Cyber-crime 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
Networks Starlink outage knocks tens of thousands offline worldwide Downdetector logged 40,000 reports before service flickered back
SaaS Outlook outage over North America, Microsoft scrambles to respond On the plus side we'll all be getting fewer unwanted emails
Public Sector 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
Storage Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up
Off-Prem 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
Offbeat Radar problem caused mayhem in UK skies on Wednesday The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow
Science 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
Off-Prem Alaska Airlines grounded itself due to mysterious IT problem Now flying again, but not saying what went wrong
Networks 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
Applications Outlook takes another sick day Millions of users disrupted, mailbox infrastructure blamed
Channel 14-hour+ global blackout at Ingram Micro halts customer orders Fears mount while distie remains silent and phone lines down
Networks Three goes to zero as UK mobile provider suffers voice and text outage Millions of customers left speechless
Public Sector 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’
Off-Prem Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes
Off-Prem Friday the 13th strikes for Barclays' corporate customers Superstitions stoked by blackout of iPortal centralized platform when no maintenance was scheduled
PaaS + IaaS Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it Big G said it was fixed, but acknowledged ongoing customer pain
AI + ML ChatGPT users wake to find it's even more wrong, slower than usual Oh, great – now who'll do my thinking for me?
Off-Prem IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password
Off-Prem IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’
Security Security outfit SentinelOne's services back online after lengthy outage Probably not a cyber-incident, but definitely not a good look
Security Victoria's Secret website laid bare for three days after 'security incident' Knickers outlet knackered
Cyber-crime Ransomware attack on MATLAB dev MathWorks – licensing center still locked down Commercial customers, STEM students all feeling the pain after mega outage of engineering data-analysis tool
Security Judge allows Delta's lawsuit against CrowdStrike to proceed with millions in damages on the line CS remains hopeful damages will be limited to seven figures
PaaS + IaaS European customers report Oracle Cloud identity outage, Big Red is silent DownDetector reported problems for about 6 hours
OSes Post-CrowdStrike catastrophe, Microsoft figures moving antivirus out of Windows kernel mode is a good idea
Off-Prem You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages
On-Prem Vanishing power feeds, UPS batteries, failover fails... Cloudflare explains that two-day outage
