I'm in a big company (until they enforce the injection mandates soon)... over the last week or so, MS Teams, Google business services and other business services have had issues that prevent users from connecting normally or at all. These have been apparently concentrated around particular cities/regions each time - meaning, not software update issues but physical location issues.
Software updates, especially "security" updates have been painful for quite a while now, but recently problems have come from the third-party suppliers many industries rely on. Today for example, it seems there is a Chicago Google services issue. Oh and Office 365 is now having trouble, again. Yesterday Zoom was slow or timing out. The day before it was something else external preventing a large region of users from even logging in. Something similar to this happened last week. All big corps are going more cloud, esp with amazon. What Could Go Wrong (WCGW)?
While fakebook is very public-facing and attention-getting, I'm not seeing industry people talking about the many outages in a very short time window. Are you all seeing any of this, pedes? Theories? (Adjusts foil hat) Because I'm hoping without evidence that there are white hats in there taking snapshots, fixing things (like restoring Trump's account lol) and tagging CCP agents...
I am a tech guy.
A lot of this stuff is normal.
The Facebook outage was big. But what you are saying seems normal.
During the FB outage, the US averaged about 10K outages (various)
Today it's been about 13K and rising. Not saying there is an issue. Just observing.
https://livemap.pingdom.com/
I'm calling it out because, having been in IT in a very large company for over a decade, I've noticed this concentrated pattern of failures over the last few weeks. This particular pattern is unique to my industry in that it has been third-party localized center downs, as opposed to the more usual semi-regular failures from software update pushes and other security or code mishaps.
Now, this may be a sign of too much reliance on too few providers, but to have significant portions of these main providers, who collect a mind-boggling amount of defense and intelligence funding, go down back to back within a short window just seems significant. If the trend suddenly abates, it will have been a very unlikely anomaly, and if it continues, will it be a new normal?
Also seeing lots of DDoS attacks for something in Arizona (it looks like on the map) https://horizon.netscout.com/?mapPosition=1.89~18.61~1.00&sidebar=close
The "cloud" needs to die a quick death. The consolidation of data (and thus control) is wholly unhealthy for the US and the World. I anxiously await the day of the 'global cloud meltdown' with popcorn at the ready.