All articles tagged with #outage
The Sonos app for iPhone, iPad and Mac briefly disappeared from Apple's App Store due to a routine administrative update with Apple. Sonos said existing installations would continue to work and expected the issue to be resolved soon; the app has since returned to the App Store and service is back to normal, with Google Play unaffected.
Discord faced an outage lasting a bit over an hour with users seeing increased API errors. The company said it was investigating at 3:08 PM ET and by 6:38 PM ET all critical functionalities had been restored for all users.
Thousands of Discord users reported outages on Friday afternoon, with about 38,000 reports by 4 p.m. ET and initial problems surfacing around 2:45 p.m., concentrated in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle; Discord did not immediately respond for comment.
The Canvas learning management system—used by thousands of schools—was knocked offline by a cyberattack but has since come back online, allowing classes to resume as investigators look into the incident.
A thermal event in an AWS Northern Virginia data center caused a power outage that impaired EC2 instances and EBS volumes in the US-East-1 region (use1-az4). AWS redirected traffic away from the affected zone, warned of longer provisioning times, and advised customers to recover by restoring from snapshots or launching in unaffected zones as recovery progressed unevenly across services. The incident underscores physical-layer risks and the concentration of dependencies in US-East-1, prompting CISOs to reassess resilience and redundancy strategies.
Ubuntu and Canonical’s servers have been offline for more than 24 hours due to a cross-border DDoS attack, hampering the company’s ability to communicate after a major vulnerability disclosure. Updates remain available from mirror sites, while a pro‑Iran group claims responsibility and officials have offered little public comment as the outage persists.
Apple's Weather app was briefly unable to load data for some users starting around 11:36 a.m. ET; Apple’s System Status page indicated a slowdown or unavailability, and the company later confirmed the issue was fixed by 2:30 p.m. ET.
Apple’s Weather app briefly went down for many iPhone users in the U.S. on Tuesday, with reports of slow or failed loading. Mashable notes the outage and confirms Apple’s status page showing the issue, which was resolved by mid-afternoon in the U.S.; some users still experienced loading delays. DownDetector had no Weather page but indicated spikes for related services, underscoring that major Apple outages are rare.
Microsoft has completed a rollback after a change caused outages in Microsoft 365, Outlook, and related services; the company says service health is improving and will continue monitoring for further mitigation as telemetry shows stabilization, with status updates noting the rollback and ongoing monitoring.
Microsoft Outlook users began experiencing sign-in failures and intermittent errors ('too many requests') on Monday. Microsoft rolled back a recent backend configuration change, but the rollback did not resolve the outage, and the company is continuing to investigate and monitor the issue, with updates on its status page and X account; Copilot issues are separate and not related to the Outlook outage.
Microsoft's Outlook is experiencing a service degradation with intermittent sign-in issues and access problems. Downdetector shows rising outage reports while Microsoft’s status page says a recently introduced change was reverted and the team is investigating the underlying cause, with no estimated repair time provided.
eBay suffered a global outage that disrupted core features like search, logging in, checkout, and item descriptions as the platform’s API went down for hours. DownDetector tracked a spike around 3:30 PM ET with reports from multiple regions; the site status page showed green, and eBay has not issued a public timeline for resolution. The disruption also affected third‑party tools relying on the API, raising broader ecommerce impact. Unverified posts mention a possible DDoS claim by the group 313 Team, but this is not confirmed. With many auctions ending soon, sellers risk lost bids and revenue.
Amazon Web Services reported a second disruption in the Middle East this month, with Bahrain’s cloud services affected by drone activity tied to the Iran war and a plea for workloads in the region to be migrated to other locations. Earlier strikes also hit UAE facilities, marking the first time U.S. tech data centers were targeted in military action as regional tensions escalate.
PlayStation Network went offline for about two hours, affecting PS5/PS4 players. The status page initially claimed all services were up, then updated to say some services were experiencing issues, impacting gaming and social features. The network has since gradually come back online, with Sony’s status page returning to normal messaging that all services are up and running by late Saturday night.
Microsoft reports an Exchange Online outage blocking mailbox/calendar access across multiple connection methods; by 14:20 EDT the outage was mitigated, but a separate MO1253428 issue affecting Office.com and Copilot sign-in is still under investigation, with post‑incident details forthcoming.