From Newsgroup: alt.security
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15239249/Amazon-cloud-crash-leaves-half-world-without-internet-AGAIN.html
Microsoft's Azure, one of the world's biggest cloud service
providers, is suffering outages, triggering widespread
internet disruptions across major companies.
According to Downdetector, problems began around 11:30am ET,
with reports surging from users who could not access
cloud-connected services, websites or apps.
The outage appears to be affecting dozens of platforms that
rely on these cloud networks, including Microsoft 365,
Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco and Kroger.
Even popular developer and data tools like Blackbaud and
Minecraft are showing connectivity issues.
Downdetector has received nearly 20,000 issue reports
from Azure users in the US.
The Microsoft outage comes just days after Amazon Web
Services disrupted 'half the internet.'
The incidents have raised concerns about how much of the
global online infrastructure depends on these two companies,
which host everything from retail and entertainment
platforms to business operations and cloud storage.
. . .
Again ... 'accident' or VLAD ???
If the latter, the spooks probably won't let them
speak the truth.
This comes immediately after a large Amazon Web
Services crash, and right in the wake of Google
finally admitting it's email database had been
badly hacked this spring.
The online universe is getting less and less stable
and less and less secure - fast.
Some serious re-thinking about cloud biz and such
is required.
I wonder if Vlad and Xi have a big shiny red button
on their desks marked "Turn Off The West" ? With
everything important online/cloud and the history
of everything getting hacked ... they probably DO
have the button.
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