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Outage

After another major outage, Alaska Airlines taps Accenture to audit technology systems

Alaska Airlines will conduct a full audit of its technology systems, part of a broader push to improve reliability after two major IT outages in recent months. Read More

Microsoft’s Azure reports cloud outage, disrupting global customers including Alaska Airlines

An outage on Microsoft’s Azure cloud services Wednesday morning disrupted operations for customers worldwide including Alaska Airlines, Xbox users and 365 subscribers. Read More

Alaska Airlines will ‘diagnose our entire IT infrastructure’ after latest outage disrupts 49,000 passengers

Alaska Airlines already tried to shore up its IT infrastructure after an outage in July forced the Seattle-based company to ground flights across the country. Apparently, it wasn’t enough. Read More

Alaska Airlines cancels 360 flights, says significant IT outage was due to ‘failure’ at a data center

The impact of the outage was evident at Sea-Tac Airport on Thursday evening, where long lines wrapped around the concourse and a maze of suitcases piled up in the baggage claim area. Read More

Alaska Airlines grounds U.S. flights after another IT outage

Updated at 8:40 p.m. Pacific. Alaska Airlines said it’s recovering from an IT outage and “actively restoring operations” as of… Read More

AWS outage affects Ticketmaster for pivotal Mariners vs. Blue Jays playoff game in Toronto

The effects of the massive AWS outage reached the sports world on Monday. Ticketmaster was dealing with ticket management issues… Read More

AWS outage was not due to a cyberattack — but shows potential for ‘far worse’ damage

The outage serves as warning sign for a potentially more disruptive situation and reflects “tech monoculture” in a global infrastructure. Read More

Amazon.com checkout goes down in extended outage for many users

Users reported a widespread outage of the checkout system on Amazon.com starting Friday afternoon. “There’s a technical issue which is… Read More

‘A little frightening’: CrowdStrike outage puts Microsoft’s role in global IT back in the spotlight

Microsoft didn’t create the defective CrowdStrike update that crippled Windows machines around the world Friday morning, but its reputation took… Read More

LinkedIn suffers outage a day after Facebook and Instagram — and X is left as our social media fix

So much for my after-lunch job search and profile lurking. A day after a Meta outage knocked out Facebook, Messenger… Read More

AWS problems impact Amazon, Disney, Smartsheet, Canva and other online services

If you’re having problems buying items or logging in to Amazon.com, you’re not alone, and thanks to the widespread use… Read More

Amazon, Expedia, Microsoft, Steam, Costco and many others hit by widespread Internet outage

An internet outage hit some of the largest online sites in the United States, according to reports tracked by outage… Read More

Amazon details cause of AWS outage that hobbled thousands of online sites and services

A “relatively small addition of capacity” to the Amazon Kinesis real-time data processing service triggered a widespread Amazon Web Services… Read More

‘Something is technically wrong’: Twitter outage extends beyond an hour

Twitter users had to go elsewhere on the internet Thursday to find out what’s going on in the world —… Read More

Widespread 911 outage hits Washington as emergency alerts sent to smartphones

A 911 outage affected agencies across Washington state on Thursday and continued into the early hours of Friday, as people… Read More

Netflix goes down on devices across globe; customers freak out on Twitter

News Brief: Streaming giant Netflix went down on Monday afternoon across the globe. “We are aware of members having trouble… Read More

Coping with the Twitter outage: A photo diary

UPDATE: Twitter is back and all is right with the world. TWITTER IS BACK. #bless — Monica Nickelsburg (@mnickelsburg) October… Read More

#Twitterdown: Social network continues to stutter after global outage

Twitter is continuing to experience sporadic technical problems this morning after a global outage that left many users unable to log… Read More

Skype-pocalypse winding down as Microsoft begins restoring service after worldwide video chat outage

It looks like Skype-pocalype may be almost over, about six hours after Microsoft’s video calling service went down for users… Read More

Starbucks sign

Starbucks back in business: Internal report blames deleted database table, indicates outage was global

Good news, Starbucks fans: The coffee giant’s stores are open again. Bad news: The coffee isn’t free anymore. The Seattle-based coffee… Read More

Updated: TweetDeck suffers brief lunchtime outage

People hoping to spend their lunch hour using TweetDeck are in for a rude surprise this afternoon. Some users are… Read More

iTunes, App Stores finally back up after nearly 12-hour outage

Just two days after its big press event, Apple’s storefronts for digital goods are experiencing massive outages. According to the… Read More

Update: Twitter has recovered from its second outage in two weeks

Update: Twitter has said that its service has been fully restored, after an outage that lasted more than an hour and… Read More

Updated: Twitter recovered from login woes

Update: Twitter’s service is back to normal following a five hour period this evening when users were unable to log in.… Read More

News Brief

Updated: The selfies are back! Instagram is working again after brief outage

Update (2:21 p.m.): Instagram is back online after a brief outage that lasted about a half hour this afternoon. The company… Read More

News Brief

Updated: iCloud service returns after an outage lasting more than an hour

People who need Apple’s iCloud service at the moment are out of luck. The company’s service status page reports that… Read More

Facebook slowly recovering from morning outage

It’s Friday, which means it’s prime time for making weekend plans with friends on Facebook, or at least enviously reading… Read More

Apple iCloud sync problems persist for some users

Is Apple’s iCloud syncing not working for you? You’re not alone. Some users have reported that iCloud syncing of data… Read More

Monday blues: Google Gmail users experiencing 2-hour email delays

Follow-up: Google apologizes for Gmail delay, pledges to improve network capacity Original story: Looks like Google has a case of… Read More

Twitter goes down for 30 minutes, social media addicts lose composure

Twitter’s homepage went down sometime around 2 p.m. PST Wednesday afternoon, but came back online about 30 minutes later. We… Read More

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