![]() The world’s largest search engine had an outage on Apwhich was resolved in just under an hour. The effects of this outage were felt around the world, specifically by businesses and educational institutions relying on Microsoft Teams for internal communication. Microsoft Teams experienced connectivity issues on Maalongside Azure, Microsoft 365 and other related services. Zoom has become integral to business communication and educational institutions since the onset of Covid-19, making the effects of this downtime nearly as wide-spread as the pandemic. The now commonly used video conferencing application, Zoom, experienced an outage on Auglasting for 3 hours. The intricate nature of the infrastructure behind these massive corporations caused one company’s outage to have a domino effect on every other associated player. The downtime lasted for about 4 hours and affected websites like Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. ![]() Similar to the Fastly outage, another CDN company, Akamai Technologies, experienced downtime on June 17, 2021. ![]() Impacted: Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, Hong Kong Stock Exchange This caused website downtime for many sites in a range of industries, like Amazon, eBay, Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, and The New York Times. Although mostly social media applications were affected, this outage stopped small businesses who use the platform and cut off employees using these platforms for internal collaboration.įastly, one of the world’s largest CDN (Content Delivery Network) companies experienced an hour-long outage on June 8, 2021. Impacted: Facebook Messenger, Instagram, WhatsAppįacebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp all experienced outages lasting about 6 hours on October 4, 2021. This halted operations, API requests, packages, pages, and pull requests and highlights the interconnected nature of downtime. GitHub, a tool used by companies like Apple, Amazon and Google and thousands of developers, suffered an outage Novemthat lasted 2 hours. ![]() The breadth of Amazon and its reach caused not only their warehouse and delivery operations to stop, but also impacted many websites owned and affiliated with the company, such as and Whole Foods, as well as Netflix, Slack, and other major tech companies. Impacted: Amazon infrastructure, Netflix, Slack, Whole FoodsĪWS (Amazon Web Services)’s historic outage occurred on Decemand lasted roughly 6 and a half hours. With our reliance on automation and connectivity expected to increase in 2022 – let’s review some of the top internet outages and website downtime incidents of 2021. We have all seen notable increases in the frequency and severity of outages as dependency on internet infrastructure grows – with no signs of slowing down. 2021 has been an eye-opening year for both businesses and consumers who use popular websites and applications. ![]()
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