Posts Tagged ‘outage’

Major fire takes down NorthC data centre in the Netherlands for six days

May 20, 2026
Sacha Kavanagh

NorthC Datacenters had a fire at its facility in Almere near Amsterdam on May 7 which took down both...

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MI: Middle East conflict sees data centre targeted as critical infrastructure; opens up debate about self-build versus colocation

March 31, 2026
Philbert Shih

The AWS outage in the UAE and Bahrain, caused by deliberate drone attacks on data centres due to the...

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4Q25 IB: Cloud infrastructure platforms suffer outages

March 13, 2026
Philbert Shih

There were a few outages of note in the 4Q25 period. ...

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Cloudflare suffers two outages caused by software, configuration issues

December 15, 2025
Philbert Shih

Cloudflare suffered two outages in the last several weeks. ...

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AWS suffers outages throughout day coming out of US-EAST-1

October 20, 2025
Philbert Shih

AWS suffered multiple outages on Monday that impacted numerous Internet-based services and businesse...

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Outages hit clouds, data centres on global basis

June 24, 2025
Philbert Shih

There have been a few outages across the cloud and data centre infrastructure sector in recent weeks...

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2Q24 IB: Outages a reminder about infrastructure and application architectures

September 13, 2024
Philbert Shih

The recent quarter did not see much in the way of outages, but there were issues. ...

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CrowdStrike update brings down Microsoft Azure; reinforces needs to review and have processes

August 6, 2024
Philbert Shih

CrowdStrike recently implemented a security update that caused a Microsoft Azure outage that had a c...

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1Q24 IB: Few public cloud outages, but ripple effect when it does happen

June 14, 2024
Philbert Shih

There were few if any hyperscale cloud outages towards the end of last year, but the 1Q24 period did...

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Cloudflare details surviving second data center outage in five months

April 16, 2024
Philbert Shih

Cloudflare shared a post-mortem on the second major outage it experienced at one of its key data cen...

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4Q23 IB: Few if any hyperscale outages, but colocation data centres had challenges

March 22, 2024
Philbert Shih

The hyperscalers seem to have avoided any significant outages during the recent quarter. ...

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Google Cloud, Meta experience service interruptions amid Super Tuesday

March 11, 2024
Philbert Shih

Google Cloud suffered outages last week that impacted users in the eastern United States and took do...

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