resilience planning

Spotify went dark for thousands of listeners as both the web player and native apps returned error messages during a widely reported outage that left users unable to play music, search for tracks or even log in — a disruption that tracking services and multiple newsrooms linked to large-scale...

Cloudflare confirmed that it restored services after a brief but widespread outage on December 5, 2025, that left dozens of high‑profile websites and apps — including professional networks, videoconferencing platforms, shopping and gaming services — intermittently unreachable for roughly half an...

A large portion of the public web went dark for many users on Tuesday as a major Cloudflare outage produced cascading 500-series errors and “please unblock challenges.cloudflare.com” challenge pages across dozens of high-profile services, leaving businesses, commuters and casual users scrambling...

Europe’s sudden dependence on a handful of hyperscalers moved from abstract policy debate to urgent public‑policy problem this autumn, after two high‑impact outages — one at Amazon Web Services and one at Microsoft Azure — interrupted banking, transport, messaging and public services across the...

A sweeping cloud failure on October 29 knocked major Microsoft services and a long tail of customer sites offline, and came on the heels of a separate Amazon Web Services disruption earlier in October — together the incidents laid bare the concentrated fragility of modern cloud infrastructure...

Microsoft engineers pushed a rollback and other mitigations after a global Azure outage tied to an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD), restoring most services within hours but leaving a clear trail of operational and architectural questions for enterprises that rely on a...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone hiccupped again this month, and the tremors were felt across offices, shops, airlines and living rooms around the world: a widespread Microsoft Azure outage triggered by an “inadvertent configuration change” to the Azure Front Door service left Microsoft 365, Xbox...

Thousands of businesses and millions of users worldwide were disrupted on October 29, 2025, when a configuration error in Microsoft Azure’s global content delivery fabric triggered an hours‑long cloud outage that knocked out Microsoft 365, Xbox services, Minecraft, and hit retail and travel apps...

Microsoft’s cloud backbone briefly collapsed on October 29 when an inadvertent configuration change in Azure Front Door (AFD) — Microsoft’s global Layer‑7 edge and application‑delivery fabric — propagated across the edge control plane, producing DNS, routing and authentication failures that...

The internet wobbled when a major Amazon Web Services (AWS) region suffered a control‑plane failure, knocking hundreds of high‑profile sites and apps partially or wholly offline and exposing how small, ordinary technical failures in the cloud can produce outsized, global disruption. Background...

The week’s major cloud outage — centered on Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 cluster — sent a clear message to businesses and consumers: the internet’s plumbing is now concentrated in a handful of corporate hands, and when one of those hands falters the effect ripples through everything from games...

The internet you use every day — from messaging apps and streaming services to online banking and government portals — runs on racks of servers, miles of fibre and a handful of companies that operate vast, power-hungry data centres: the cloud is the invisible engine of the web. Recent reporting...

Windows 11 can now attempt to repair itself automatically after repeated boot failures using a new cloud-aware feature called Quick Machine Recovery (QMR) — a Best-Effort, WinRE-based remediation pipeline Microsoft built as part of its Windows Resiliency Initiative and which is rolling out into...

In the early hours of an otherwise ordinary workweek, the headlines told a chilling story: KNP, a storied logistics company in the United Kingdom with 158 years of history, shuttered operations overnight due to a catastrophic ransomware attack. This collapse is more than a cautionary tale—it’s a...

For decades, few symbols have defined the Windows experience more infamously than the Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). Its jarring, blue expanse—littered with cryptic codes—signaled one of the most frustrating and feared encounters for PC users and IT administrators alike. Now, as part of a bold...

In a potentially transformative moment for the European tech landscape, the European Commission is actively considering a move away from Microsoft Azure as its primary cloud service provider, with France-based OVHcloud emerging as the leading candidate. This shift, which has come to light...

The June Patch Tuesday event has traditionally been one of those regular, if sometimes nervy, moments in the IT administrator’s calendar, offering a mix of security fixes and, all too often, unintended side effects. This time, for Windows Server admins around the world, that unease has given way...

The devastating 2022 wildfire season in the United States was an urgent wake-up call for both citizens and corporations alike. As flames consumed over 7.5 million acres—according to data from the National Interagency Fire Center—individuals, emergency responders, and private sector innovators...

The ever-evolving landscape of data center reliability offers a compelling study in both technical achievement and persistent vulnerability. Recent evidence, most notably from the Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis, paints a nuanced picture: as data centers grow more reliable year over...

Original release date: July 23, 2020 Summary Note: This Activity Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise and Link Removed frameworks for all referenced threat actor techniques and mitigations. Over recent...