Comments on: Cloud outage season? https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/ All about electronics and circuit design Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:12:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1644537 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:45:39 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1644537 there are too many accidental outages this week for them to all be accidents, seems interesting that it’s the same networks as the BGP issue the other week

there seem to have been major fuckups for the past 3 months

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1644535 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 19:44:42 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1644535 Google Cloud us-east1 data centers disrupted due to “physical damage to multiple fiber bundles”
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/google-cloud-us-east1-data-centers-disrupted-due-physical-damage-multiple-fiber-bundles/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1644240 Sun, 07 Jul 2019 09:03:05 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1644240 Facebook’s image outage reveals how the company’s AI tags your photos
‘Oh wow, the AI just tagged my profile picture as basic’

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/3/20681231/facebook-outage-image-tags-captions-ai-machine-learning-revealed

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1644181 Sat, 06 Jul 2019 21:45:36 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1644181 Configuration Error Likely Culprit in Massive Google Outage
https://pentestmag.com/configuration-error-likely-culprit-in-massive-google-outage/

According to Benjamin Treynor Sloss, Google’s VP of Engineering, the root cause of the event appears to be some incorrectly applied server configuration updates in Eastern USA. These were supposed to be applied to a small group of servers in one region but the updates were actually sent out to a larger number of servers located in neighboring regions.

When the servers failed, over half of Google’s capacity in the East was lost. As Google tried to squeeze all of its traffic into the remaining capacity, the resultant congestion affected multiple Google Cloud and API dependent services.

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1644082 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 19:18:58 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1644082 https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/07/02/major-internet-outage-affects-discord-verizon-and-even-down-detector/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1643985 Fri, 05 Jul 2019 08:16:02 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1643985 Instagram, Facebook and Whatsapp down: Pictures not loading on social media sites as messenger app stops working
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/instagram-facebook-whatsapp-down-not-working-today-pictures-loading-messenger-app-status-issues/

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1643944 Thu, 04 Jul 2019 20:58:17 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1643944 Your Regular Reminder That the Internet Is a Fragile Place
https://slate.com/technology/2019/07/cloudflare-internet-outage-502-gateway-error.amp

On Tuesday morning, a large swath of the internet broke. The chat service Discord wasn’t working. If you went to Shopify, Dropbox, Nest, or any number of other websites, you most likely ran into “502 Gateway Error” between 9:45 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. If you tried to check if it was your own internet connection by using DownDetector, that wasn’t working either. Some speculated it was a foreign cyberattack. It wasn’t.

The culprit this time was Cloudflare—the same company connected to, but not responsible for, a similarly massive outage in late June that took down thousands of websites.

Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services, which collectively control nearly 77 percent of the cloud computing market. Thousands of other websites, apps, and services rely on these three companies, plus Cloudflare, to stay up and running.

Cloudflare’s chief technology officer said the service’s outage was caused by a “bad software deploy that was rolled back.”

]]> By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2019/07/04/cloud-outage-season/comment-page-1/#comment-1643892 Thu, 04 Jul 2019 06:43:58 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=182942#comment-1643892 It’s a cloud service that went down. Seems that someone else’s computer is not safe after all?

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