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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

    How One Feature File Caused Cloudflare's Worst Outage Since 2019

    How a ClickHouse permissions change doubled a Bot Management feature file and caused Cloudflare's biggest outage since 2019 on November 18, 2025.

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

    Tailscale Was Down Again, and Here's What the Internet Had to Say

    A Tailscale control plane outage left users locked out of the admin console, raised status page doubts and sent some toward Headscale and backup VPNs.

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

    AWS GovCloud vs Commercial Cloud After the us-east-1 Outage

    Why AWS GovCloud stayed up when us-east-1 went down, why some federal users still had problems, and what the outage says about cloud dependencies.

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

    Inside AWS's October Outage and What Went Wrong

    How a DynamoDB DNS race condition disrupted AWS us-east-1 for over 14 hours, hitting EC2, NLB, Lambda and Connect, and what AWS is changing.

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

    Multi-Region Failover: Why It Is Harder Than the Diagrams Suggest

    After the AWS US-East-1 outage, engineers Googled multi-region failover. Cost, vendor dependencies and unrehearsed plans make it harder than diagrams show.

    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

    A DynamoDB DNS failure took down AWS US-EAST-1 and 82 services, from Slack to Ring. Why one region is still the cloud's 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

    The October 20 AWS us-east-1 outage took down Amazon, Slack, Fortnite, Duolingo and more, and showed how much of the internet depends on one region.

    October 20, 2025
    8 min read read

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