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Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records | AWS News Blog

Matt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 11:47:26 +0000

Today, we’re announcing Amazon Route 53 Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new Domain Name Service (DNS) business continuity feature that is designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) AWS Region. This enhancement ensures that customers can continue making DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, providing greater predictability and resilience for mission-critical applications

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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.

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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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PayPal and Venmo are down — live updates as users are left wondering if their money is safe | Tom’s Guide

Matt — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 16:55:55 +0000

Users are struggling to use their favorite payment apps and some are downright scared

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Columbus is slowly sinking into the ground – Axios Columbus

Matt — Wed, 14 May 2025 14:51:34 +0000

Columbus is slowly sinking into the ground, one of a handful of major U.S. cities dropping across almost the entirety of its boundaries.

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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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What lies beneath: the growing threat to the hidden network of cables that power the internet | Internet | The Guardian

Matt — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 21:00:26 +0000

When the undersea cable that provides the country’s internet was restored weeks later, the scale of the disruption was clear. The lack of connectivity had hampered recovery efforts, while at the same time devastating businesses and local finances, many of which depend on remittances from abroad.

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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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It’s been a bad week for public cybersecurity | TechRadar

Matt — Sat, 11 May 2024 12:39:49 +0000

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reported a 264% increase in ransomware incidents reported to them over the past five years. With the sheer amount of data that healthcare companies are tasked with collecting and storing, as well as the frequently sensitive nature of this data, this is unsurprising. This data makes healthcare organizations a prime target for extortion, and hackers have absolutely been taking advantage of this.

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Cellphone outage hits AT&T customers nationwide; Verizon and T-Mobile users also affected | Fox Business

Matt — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 13:56:35 +0000

Most users, 54%, say they are having issues with mobile phone service. More than a third of customers reporting being affected say they have no signal at all, and 8% of users say their mobile internet is down.

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