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Why the Web was Down Today – Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer

Matt — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:59:38 +0000

Dave explains today’s Amazon Web Services outage, what happened, and what the future implications are.

Amazon Web Services outage takes leading websites offline

Matt — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 11:02:52 +0000

Amazon Web Services, a major provider of cloud hosting that underpins much of the web and every day online tools, went offline due to a problem with one its core database products, the company said.

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A major Google Cloud outage was caused by uninterruptible power supplies being…interrupted | TechRadar

Matt — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:58:13 +0000

The company confirmed that its us-east5-c zone, otherwise known as Columbus, Ohio, experienced “degraded service or unavailability” for a period of six hours and 10 minutes on March 29, 2025, blaming it on a “loss of utility power in the affected zone.”

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“Unprecedented” Google Cloud event wipes out customer account and its backups | Ars Technica

Matt — Sat, 18 May 2024 10:57:08 +0000

Buried under the news from Google I/O this week is one of Google Cloud’s biggest blunders ever: Google’s Amazon Web Services competitor accidentally deleted a giant customer account for no reason. UniSuper, an Australian pension fund that manages $135 billion worth of funds and has 647,000 members, had its entire account wiped out at Google Cloud, including all its backups that were stored on the service. UniSuper thankfully had some backups with a different provider and was able to recover its data, but according to UniSuper’s incident log, downtime started May 2, and a full restoration of services didn’t happen until May 15.

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Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack

Matt — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 10:58:24 +0000

Unfortunately, the system and data restoration process isn’t going smoothly, and CloudNordic says many of its customers have lost data that appears to be irrecoverable.

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Define RPO and RTO tiers for storage and data protection strategy | TechTarget

Matt — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:09:28 +0000

We look at RPO and RTO in defining data protection and disaster recovery strategies and how to specify tiers that reflect the importance of different systems in your organisation

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Kakao suffers worst server outage, with no complete recovery in sight

Matt — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 18:02:07 +0000

“The Pangyo data center is our main data facility that operates around 32,000 servers, but only one third of them – 12,000 servers – have been restored,” Yang Hyun-seo, a Kakao vice president, said during a press conference held in the afternoon.

“It usually takes less than 20 minutes to restore all of the servers, but the extent of server losses is just so massive,” he added, declining to say how long it would take for KakaoTalk and other affiliated services to return to normal.

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Massive Microsoft 365 outage caused by faulty ECS deployment

Matt — Sun, 24 Jul 2022 14:53:04 +0000

In a preliminary post-incident report, Microsoft has revealed that this week’s 5-hour-long Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was triggered by a faulty Enterprise Configuration Service (ECS) deployment that led to cascading failures and availability impact across multiple regions.

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9 most important steps for SMBs to defend against ransomware attacks | CSO Online

Matt — Mon, 09 May 2022 11:48:20 +0000

What is the best way for a small- to medium-sized business (SMB) to protect itself from ransomware? Ransomware is impacting firms around the world. Mandiant has indicated that ransomware is on the rise and doesn’t appear to be slowing down one bit. These are the nine tasks that SMBs should focus on to mitigate risk from ransomware attacks.

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That time we unplugged a data center to test our disaster readiness – Dropbox

Matt — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 12:47:32 +0000

Due to a large cross-functional effort led by the DR team in 2020 and 2021—culminating in the literal unplugging of our San Jose data center—Dropbox was able to reduce its RTO by more than an order of magnitude. This is the story of how we did it.

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