Web-based services across the world – including Fortnite, Roblox, PlayStation Network, and more, including major banks – are starting to cover after Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down earlier today. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Major Amazon Web Services Outage Causes Global Disruption DIASPORA MESSENGER NEWS MEDIA - Community Center For Kenyans In Diaspora Isaac Mbugua On October 20, 2025, a major outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) sent shockwaves across the digital world, temporarily disabling countless websites, apps, and services that form the fabric of modern internet use. The disruption, traced to a failure in AWS’s US-East-1 region—a critical hub in the company’s cloud infrastructure—exposed the vulne...| DIASPORA MESSENGER NEWS MEDIA
A global widespread outage involving Amazon Web Services early Monday took down several major websites and applications, including Canvas, the learning management system used by Mississippi State University students and faculty. According to AP News, the first signs of website trouble occurred at 2:11 a.m. Monday morning. Canvas, which relies on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, is...| The Reflector
Update, 2:18 PM, by Laura Herijgers: AWS reports that the outage has been largely resolved. “Almost all services are functioning normally again,” the company reports on its status page. AWS Lambda continues to be affected by the outage for the time being. The cause turned out to be a malfunction in the DNS system responsible […]| Techzine Global
On June 27, 2024, a small number of users globally may have noticed that 1.1.1.1 was unreachable or degraded. The root cause was a mix of BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) hijacking and a route leak.| The Cloudflare Blog
On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain what the failure was, why it occurred, and what we’re doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again.| The Cloudflare Blog
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On July 14th, 2025, Cloudflare made a change to our service topologies that caused an outage for 1.1.1.1 on the edge, resulting in downtime for 62 minutes for customers using the 1.1.1.1 public DNS Resolver as well as intermittent degradation of service for Gateway DNS. We’re deeply sorry for this outage. This outage was the result of an internal configuration error and not the result of an attack or a BGP hijack. In this blog post, we’re going to talk about what the failure was, why it o...| The Cloudflare Blog
Today, June 12, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a significant service outage that affected a large set of our critical services, including Workers KV, WARP, Access, Gateway, Images, Stream, Workers AI, Turnstile and Challenges, AutoRAG, and parts of the Cloudflare Dashboard.| The Cloudflare Blog
Last week, I watched a video on Twitter, about one of those balloons filled with Helium exploding when it reached some antennas. But, why did it explode if there is helium inside? Let’s try to figure it out. Before that, here you get the video: This is not an isolated case. There have been lots … Continue reading "Could a balloon blow up?" The post Could a balloon blow up? appeared first on One-pot Science.| One-pot Science
Almost nine years ago, Cloudflare was a tiny company and I was a customer not an employee. Cloudflare had launched a month earlier and one day alerting told me that my little site, jgc.org, didn’t seem to have working DNS any more.| The Cloudflare Blog
This morning, internet was down at home. The last time I had such an issue was in February 2023, when my provider was Oricom. Now I'm with a business service at Teksavvy Internet (TSI), in which I pay 100$ per month for a 250/50 mbps business package, with a static IP address, on which I run, well, everything: email services, this website, etc. Mitigation Email The main problem when the service goes down like this for prolonged outages is email. Mail is pretty resilient to failures like this ...| Blog.
On Thursday, February 6, 2025, we experienced an outage with our object storage service (R2) and products that rely on it. Here's what happened and what we're doing to fix this going forward.| The Cloudflare Blog
GitHub, a critical service for millions of organizations, suffered 49 minutes or more of Git downtime on January […]| DEVCLASS
