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    8 articles tagged Outage, newest first.

    Data Center
    Outage
    Disaster Recovery

    Proton Outage: What a Cooling Failure Exposed

    Proton's August 27 outage began with a total cooling failure in Frankfurt, where room temperature rose from 21.8°C to 51.9°C in under 30 minutes.

    September 7, 2026
    7 min read read
    Cloudflare
    Outage
    Internet
    Infrastructure
    Bot Management
    ClickHouse
    DNS

    Inside Cloudflare's Worst Outage Since 2019: How One Feature File Took Down Half the Internet

    A database permissions change triggered a chain reaction that caused Cloudflare's biggest outage in six years. Here's how a doubled feature file brought down a massive portion of global Internet traffic.

    November 19, 2025
    16 min read read
    Tailscale
    VPN
    Self-hosting
    Headscale
    Outage
    Infrastructure

    Tailscale Was Down—Again. Here's What the Internet Had to Say

    When Tailscale's admin console went dark, it triggered more than frustration—it sparked a wave of interest in self-hosted alternatives like Headscale and raised questions about trusting cloud-based VPN infrastructure.

    November 3, 2025
    7 min read
    AWS
    cloud
    GovCloud
    outage
    infrastructure

    AWS GovCloud vs Commercial Cloud: A Breakdown After the East Coast Meltdown

    When us-east-1 went down, GovCloud stayed up. We explore why AWS's isolated government cloud survived the outage, and what it reveals about architecture, dependencies, and real resilience.

    October 25, 2025
    8 min read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    Infrastructure
    DynamoDB
    EC2

    Inside AWS's October Outage and What Went Wrong

    For over 14 hours, AWS's us-east-1 region buckled under a DNS bug. Here's the full breakdown of what went wrong, how automation backfired, and what AWS is doing to prevent it from happening again.

    October 24, 2025
    8 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Multi-Region
    Failover
    Infrastructure
    Outage

    Multi-Region Failover: Why It Is Harder Than Most Diagrams

    When AWS US-East-1 went down, engineers worldwide frantically Googled multi-region failover. But the reality is much harder than the diagrams suggest—here's why building true resilience is expensive, complex, and often left underfunded.

    October 21, 2025
    7 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    DNS
    US-EAST-1
    Infrastructure

    AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Concentration Risk Still Matters

    When AWS US-EAST-1 went down due to DNS failure, it exposed the painful irony of cloud resilience. 82 services crashed, including Slack, DockerHub, and Ring. Here's why the cloud's most popular region became its biggest single point of failure.

    October 20, 2025
    9 min read read
    AWS
    Cloud
    Outage
    Internet
    US-EAST-1
    Infrastructure

    When the Cloud Breaks: How One AWS Outage Took Down Half the Internet

    At midnight Pacific Time on October 20th, the internet started acting weird. Amazon, Duolingo, Fortnite, and Slack all went dark. The culprit? Another AWS US-EAST-1 outage that exposed how centralized—and fragile—the modern internet really is.

    October 20, 2025
    8 min read read

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