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Topic covering large-scale failures of cloud-hosted services, from faults and maintenance errors to physical attacks, and the reports that document them.
Azure OpenAI and Foundry in Sweden Central failed for 5 hours 55 minutes on 29 September, according to a postmortem write-up summarised on dev.to. The post prescribes a per-call timeout, a circuit breaker and a second route, and we found two gaps in its sample breaker.
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Yandex shut its Vladimir data centre after a drone attack, the third of its sites knocked out within days. Cloud customers absorbed outages across more than 80 services, cryptobriefing reported, and the only share-price reading, a fall of nearly 4%, came after the second strike.
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Cloudflare reports Yandex-network bot traffic fell to 0.4% of its two-week peak after Ukrainian drone strikes on Yandex data centers. The series covers one network's requests, so it documents a provider outage more firmly than any change in global traffic.
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Google's final report on the August 20 incident traces more than two dozen degraded products back to lost capacity on the links between data centers inside us-west1, after automated rerouting failed to move the traffic.
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Google's report on the 1 September us-central1 outage describes a 4-hour-11-minute failure that started when higher-density transceivers met fabric ends still running the old optics. Technicians fixed it by putting the original parts back.
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Microsoft traced the failure to recent changes it had made to the service and spent the day testing whether reverting them would help. For anyone mapping dependencies, it was a cheap rehearsal.
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