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8 articles tagged Outage, newest first.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.