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Which is related to the PDX area data center that went hard-down earlier this morning.

This could easily be related as that DC seems to have housed a lot of cloud based service infrastructure.

Which data center is down in PDX?

Flexential PDX02, according to the outages mailing list[0].

[0] https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2023-November/0149...

Gee, that makes it sound like cloud-hosted products are susceptible to data center outages just like products that rely on colocated and contracted hosting. Impossible!

/s

If half the internet is down, your customers won't complain about you being down as well /s

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