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For those out of the loop, this week has seen an outage from a bunch of major US internet companies: Cloudflare, Slack, Google Cloud, Azure, Facebook (including Instagram and WhatsApp), and now iCloud.

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Interns join at the beginning of summer. \o/

Now might be around the time they’d start pushing to production, too…

So we will have “eternal July” for internet outage?

There's been a few major office365 outages that coincided with the Azure ones, we've taken to calling it office364 internally.

At this point it’s more like Office 361

There have also been a few "nines" related jokes, as in:

Hey, nine fives!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...

I was a little confused by that phrase, so for anybody else who was as confused as me.

"55.5555555% ("nine fives") "

downtime per year: 162 days

Have any of them issues post mortems yet? Anything at all to indicate an attack of some sort?

“Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy“

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/

The one thing we can say with some certainty (Except for the first cloudflare outage about a week ago[1]), it's not BGP/routing table fuckery/IP space hijacks/people who don't know MANRs. There's lots of routing table monitoring services and big ISPs that run their own alerting/alarming systems.

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-...

this is somewhat common

They needed to connect NSA's new servers... /s

Attackers and state actors sometimes appear to behave indiscriminately

why is slack on that list, they use AWS. They arent an infrastructure provider.

Nor is FB. It is about major outages.

facebook absolutely is an infrastructure provider for a whole host of products including FB, Instagram, WhatsApp and more.

Sure, you are absolutely right.

They also provide login (authentication) services for a number of sites.

Its probably some back end access for five eyes, and needs a re-start of everything. Its too fishy for it just to a coincidence.

Could it be that people see an outage, migrate to a new vendor, and increase load?

AMD has been shipping their new Epyc Rome server CPUs to hyperscalars for a few weeks now [1]. It seems to be a very appealing chip that a lot of them are adopting. They won't be the same as whatever they were using before, so it could be that major updates are needed to include them, meaning that it's just a risky time right now?

[1] Second question in https://www.anandtech.com/show/14568/an-interview-with-amds-...

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