When Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region experienced a multi-hour outage on October 20, 2025, much of the public attention focused on the consumer impact. More than a thousand websites and ...

The IT channel will be watching for the impact of compute-heavy AI workloads on the cloud in 2026. This week, Microsoft became the latest vendor to experience a massive outage that affected multiple ...

From AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft to Cloudflare, Ingram Micro and Salesforce—here are the 10 biggest cloud outages of 2025 that rocked millions of customers. This year saw massive cloud outages ...

The year 2025 saw some of the biggest outages that disrupted millions of users across streaming, gaming, communications, and other online platforms. Downdetector data reveals that while individual ...

(AMES, IOWA) When most people think about the internet, they likely picture websites and apps. What they rarely see are the invisible services that make those experiences possible: systems that ...

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On October 20, 2025, an operational change in AWS’ US‑EAST‑1 region triggered a chain of failures across more than a hundred services. DNS resolution became unreliable, database endpoints were ...

The growing impact of expensive large language model outages demands a return to architectural basics in order to maintain ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Doug Jacobson, Iowa State University (THE CONVERSATION) When most people think about ...