24 h. ago Cloudflare down latest: ‘Fix’ update issued after X, ChatGPT and more websites suffer mass outage

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

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28 h. ago Cloudflare down as X, Open AI and Spotify users thrown into chaos in huge outage

Down Detector reported that many sites had gone down following a Cloudfare outage on Monday afternoon. X, Spotify, ChatGPT, Amazon Web Services and Mumsnet among other were affected

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28 h. ago What is Cloudflare? The invisible service behind today’s mass internet issues

Cloudflare, a company that invisibly holds up much of the internet, became a lot better known on Tuesday morning.

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28 h. ago Cloudflare down latest: Websites such as Twitter not working amid technical problems with the internet

Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline

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2 w. ago Amazon reports strongest cloud growth since 2022 after major outage

Amazon Web Services (AWS) sees 20% increase in revenue year over year, topping Wall Street estimatesAmazon has made its first financial disclosures since the disastrous outage suffered by its cloud computing division that brought everything from smart beds to banks offline.In spite of the global outage, Amazon Web Services has continued to grow, and this quarter reported a 20% increase in revenue year over year. Wall Street estimated that AWS would bring in $32.42bn in net sales in the third quarter, with the company reporting actual revenue of $33bn. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Microsoft outage live updates: Users report Azure, Starbucks app, Xbox and airport website down as recovery underway

‘We are working to address an issue affecting Azure Front Door,’ Microsoft said in a statement

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2 w. ago Microsoft outage live updates: Users report outages with Azure as Starbucks app, Xbox and airport website go dark

‘We are working to address an issue affecting Azure Front Door,’ Microsoft said in a statement

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2 w. ago Microsoft outage live updates: Users report outages with Azure and Amazon Web Services leaving services unusable

Azure says it’s rolling out technical fixes which will finish deploying within the hour and users of the Microsoft cloud will soon be seeing the effects

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2 w. ago AWS outage live updates: Users report outages with Microsoft and Amazon Web Services leaving internet unusable

The reports of an outage, which Amazon disputes, come after an AWS issue caused major websites to malfunction just over a week ago

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2 w. ago Amazon and Microsoft outages full list of every service affected including Asda and Lloyds

Here is a list of all the companies which are impacted by the latest outages involving Amazon and Microsoft, which is causing chaos online after they went down this afternoon

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2 w. ago AWS outage live updates: Amazon Web Services goes down again leaving huge portion of the internet unusable

The reported outage comes after an AWS issue caused major websites to malfunction just over a week ago

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2 w. ago Major outage at Amazon and Microsoft Azure takes down banks, airlines, Office 365, and even Minecraft

It’s the second major internet outage in as many weeks, and comes just before Microsoft’s quarterly earnings call

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2 w. ago Amazon AWS down affecting 'half of world internet' including Xbox and Minecraft

Amazon and Microsoft's outages are having a knock-on, affecting dozens of platforms that rely on these cloud networks including Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco and Kroger

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2 w. ago Microsoft down affecting 'half of world internet' including Xbox and Minecraft

Microsoft's outages are having a knock-on, affecting dozens of platforms that rely on these cloud networks including Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco and Kroger

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3 w. ago Huge Amazon cloud crash leaves half the world without internet AGAIN

Amazon's cloud service is experiencing an outage that has taken down 'half of the internet' for the second time in less than 10 days.

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3 w. ago Amazon reveals cause of AWS outage that took everything from banks to smart beds offline

AWS explains in a lengthy post how a bug in automation software brought down thousands of sites and applicationsAmazon has revealed the cause of this week’s hours-long AWS outage, which took everything from Signal to smart beds offline, was a bug in automation software that had widespread consequences.In a lengthy outline of the cause of the outage published on Thursday, AWS revealed a cascading set of events brought down thousands of sites and applications that host their services with the company. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Guardian view on the cloud crash: an outage that showed who really runs the internet | Editorial

A failure at Amazon’s server centre paralysed global services for 15 hours. It was not just a glitch but a stark reminder of our digital dependency and fragilityAn outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday disrupted apps and websites around the world, affecting more than 2,000 companies and leaving millions of users unable to access services like Snapchat, Roblox, Signal, Duolingo and even Amazon’s own operations. Removing the tech from our tech-dependent existence led to workers being sent home and exams delayed. The crash, which lasted 15 hours, underlined how deeply our digital lives depend on a small number of cloud providers – and how vulnerable many everyday systems are to a single failure.If data is the new oil, then cloud computing is the pipeline, the refinery, the tanker fleet and, increasingly, the pump too. The big three – AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud – account for 60% of global cloud computing. They own the networks and cables that move data across the worl...

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4 w. ago People woken up by beds becoming uncomfortably warm after huge internet outage

Amazon Web Services outage that took Snapchat and others offline also affected internet-enabled beds

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4 w. ago Amazon workers claim 'kill switch' triggered massive outage that took down 'half the internet'

Amazon employees claimed they were left in the dark during the outage that took down half the internet on Monday, fueling speculations that the tech giant triggered a 'kill switch.'

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4 w. ago Amazon workers claim 'kill switch' triggered during massive outage that took down 'half the internet'

Amazon employees claimed they were left in the dark during the outage that took down half the internet on Monday, fueling speculations that the tech giant triggered a 'kill switch.'

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