Outages - The Stack (Page 3)

AWS admitted that “customers may also have experienced issues when attempting to initiate a Call or Chat to AWS Support” during the incident. What happened to recent architectural changes designed to avoid this?

The Stack June 14, 2023

Fire, water, hit Google Cloud in Paris - with global impact

Fire, water, hit Google Cloud in Paris - with global impact

Over 90 Google Cloud services were knocked offline in its Paris region after a major data centre incident – believed to have been caused by a water leak triggering a fire in a battery room of a co-location data centre. The incident also briefly triggered the complete global outage of its...

Edward Targett April 27, 2023

An IT outage grounded Lufthansa’s Global Fleet: Here’s what was to blame...

An IT outage grounded Lufthansa’s Global Fleet: Here’s what was to blame...

“Even at a depth of five metres, our fibre optic cables are not safe from concrete drills” lamented Deutsche Telekom AG on February 14, sharing pictures of damage caused by construction workers in Frankfurt. Needless to say, the telco was not the only company wringing its hands, as downstream customer...

The Stack February 16, 2023

NYSE left with tough controls questions after disaster recovery error

NYSE left with tough controls questions after disaster recovery error

4,341 trades cancelled. But why does DR system need manual shutdown?

Edward Targett January 30, 2023

Massive Azure outage blamed on WAN update

Massive Azure outage blamed on WAN update

"The network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network"

The Stack January 25, 2023

FAA outage triggered by “damaged database file” -- after agency warned on old hardware

FAA outage triggered by “damaged database file” -- after agency warned on old hardware

A serious IT outage at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) which forced it to halt all US departing flights on Wednesday 11 has been attributed by the transportation agency to a “damaged database file” “At this time, there is no evidence of a cyber attack. The FAA is working diligently...

The Stack January 13, 2023