No, That's an outage that costs money, and can even impact medical devices... which means right now people are dying because of this outage because medical devices aren't able to work correctly.
Have some respect.
Any organization that places critical medical devices "in the cloud" should be shut down and sued into oblivion. It wasn't too long ago that someone scanned with shodan.io and found IV pumps, PCA pumps, heart monitors, and radiology scanners open to the Internet. Then we just had the story about security cameras in the same regard. Having worked IT in healthcare, I can confirm places that have left all this stuff open, left patient records unencrypted on globally-accessible Windows shares, and worse.
I have Azure services all over the world, no one has complained, and Azure shows no outage or health event. I mean, if no clients complained, how widespread could it be? Maybe it was very brief, so we all missed it, BUT, it would explain why ProtonMail disconnected my external account around 2:30pm EDT.
It's not all of them. One thing that tends to happen with a major outage is everybody treats downdetector.com as the gospel truth. Then end users try to make their own reports, and don't even know what service they're trying to connect to (like reporting Netflix is down when they try to load Hulu). Then lazy news services just pick up downdetector results and publish stories, which are then picked up and copied by other news services.
What's known: GCP (Google Cloud Platform, not to be confused with Google A [youtu.be]
My theory is that Azure and AWS are having issues due to a large number of multi-cloud GCP customers failing over. They're just overloaded - it's not one or two GCP regions that are down. It's all of them.
Although I've been having issues with AWS all day, since before GCP went down. So I'm not sure.
Each cloud service should have a couple of days per year on which they shut down for 24 hours so everyone can practice their contingency plans.
No, That's an outage that costs money, and can even impact medical devices... which means right now people are dying because of this outage because medical devices aren't able to work correctly.
Have some respect.
Any organization that places critical medical devices "in the cloud" should be shut down and sued into oblivion. It wasn't too long ago that someone scanned with shodan.io and found IV pumps, PCA pumps, heart monitors, and radiology scanners open to the Internet. Then we just had the story about security cameras in the same regard. Having worked IT in healthcare, I can confirm places that have left all this stuff open, left patient records unencrypted on globally-accessible Windows shares, and worse.
It's not all of them. One thing that tends to happen with a major outage is everybody treats downdetector.com as the gospel truth. Then end users try to make their own reports, and don't even know what service they're trying to connect to (like reporting Netflix is down when they try to load Hulu). Then lazy news services just pick up downdetector results and publish stories, which are then picked up and copied by other news services.
What's known: GCP (Google Cloud Platform, not to be confused with Google A [youtu.be]
My theory is that Azure and AWS are having issues due to a large number of multi-cloud GCP customers failing over. They're just overloaded - it's not one or two GCP regions that are down. It's all of them.
Although I've been having issues with AWS all day, since before GCP went down. So I'm not sure.