Check out “what went down” from Monday, August 29th to Sunday, September 4th.
Newsworthy:
Microsoft Azure was fully down for some users starting around 11 AM Pacific time on August 30th and resolving around 9 AM on the 31st. The problem specifically affected the users that run Canonical Ubuntu 18.04. A “flawed security update” contributed to broken DNS queries.
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime
While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations.
AWS
- AWS Cloudfront was down for 39 minutes in AWS-US-West-2 on 9/1, as the platform was unable to purge files for 24 minutes, then displayed extreme latency for 15 minutes.
Azure
- Azure App Service was unable to be reached in 5 of 12 North American regions for 8 hours and 49 minutes from 8/29 to 8/30. Additionally, the downtime could be possibly connected to DNS outage tied to an issue with Canonical Ubuntu 18.04.
- Azure DevOps Repos was down for 7 hours and 46 minutes on 8/29, corresponding with the Azure App Service outage. As a result, this downtime could also be tied to the Canonical Ubuntu 18.04 DNS outage.
GCP
- GCP Compute Engine was down for 15 hours and 20 minutes on 8/30. The app was unable to create new instances in GCP US East 4 due to a lack of capacity from GCP.
- Then on 8/31, it was down again for 17 hours and 20 minutes because it was unable to create new instances in GCP-US-East-4 due to a lack of capacity from GCP.
- GCP App Engine was down for 28 minutes on September 2nd, unable to create new versions from GCP-UW-West-2.
Saas/Other
- NuGet was down for 1 hr 18 mins on 8/31. The outage was characterized by a fluctuation between extreme latency and downtime when listing versions and downloading images from the AWS us-west-2 region.
- Github was down for 13 minutes in the northeastern US, while it had extreme latency for all users in North America on 9/2.
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