Microsoft Azure in outage after routine fiber check
Services saw drop in West US region
News - Outage
The latest news on networking, cloud, and AI infrastructure
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Cisco, Juniper gear ‘malfunctioned’ just as US bunker busters hit Iranian nuclear sites: report
Iranian media asserts networking gear housed US-planted dormant malware and suffered ‘malicious packets’ even when cut off from the global internet
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Tata Communications promises 99.99% availability through 'self-healing intelligent network'
IZO Data Center Dynamic Connectivity platform automatically re-routes traffic ‘within seconds’ without human intervention
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Cloudflare: Cloud fails and cable cuts defined Internet frailty as 2025 closed
Hyperscaler outages led the narrative when it came to web disruption last quarter
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Verizon outage last week down to 'software issue'
Cybersecurity criminals not to blame, carrier says
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CrowdStrike wins lawsuit over 2024 Microsoft meltdown
Cybersec firm doesn't strike out
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Iran shuts down internet nationwide to quash growing anti-regime protests
Digital iron curtain descends in revival of tactics last seen during the deadly 2019 Bloody Aban protests
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Cloudflare finds smoking gun behind Venezuela conspiracy theory
The unusual overlap between mysterious routing and Nicolás Maduro is solved
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Top 5 AI stories of 2025: Agents & automation, Genesis & GPUs
A look back on the DeepSeek debacle and the rise (and reality) of AI agents
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Cloudflare suffered yet another outage: Here's what happened
Downtime resolved, but comes just weeks after a global outage took down most of the web
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AWS shrinks 15-hour bloops to '60 minutes' – just don't mention the outage
DNS lifeline promised with Amazon Route 53 update
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Cloudflare post-mortem highlights AI agent networking pitfalls
Outage explained: Machine learning failure behind global failover
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AWS and Azure fall under EU scrutiny as Google Cloud let off the hook
EC investigates concerns over hyperscaler dominance amid recurring disruptions
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Major Cloudflare outage brings down sites around the world (including SDx)
Smaller platforms like ChatGPT and X also impacted as malicious attack ruled out
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IBM joins the outage club after quantum cloud service unexpectedly went down
Qiskit Runtime service outage followed in the footsteps of AWS US-EAST-1
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AWS launches automated outage tool days after taking down most of the web
CloudWatch monitoring tool comes with a whiff of automated irony
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Major AWS outage brings down much of the web
Perplexity, Snapchat, Fortnite, Airtable, Canva, Amazon, Slack, and more
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Optus blames Ericsson for Triple Zero outage earlier this week
Claims that "Ericsson's equipment did not operate as it should"
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Cloudflare accidentally DDoS'ed itself in dashboard update gone wrong
Three-hour service disruption affected dashboard and APIs but spared network infrastructure
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Mystery outage cuts China off from global internet traffic
China's Great Firewall blocked HTTPS traffic for over an hour, with analysts pointing to device misconfiguration as the possible cause
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Winter storm knocked out power at Pfizer's Groton data center in Connecticut
Power has since been restored, but caused several hardware failures
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PlayStation Network suffers major global outage lasting more than a day
The weekend is usually peak time for online gamers
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Nigeria's 9Mobile blames network outage on data center fire in Lagos
But previous fiber cuts caused by vandalism also impacted network
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Telstra pays $1.9m fine following emergency call failure earlier this year
The 90 minute outage happened in March
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Faulty comms system causes nationwide National Rail delays in UK
Several train lines have been significantly affected