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Hardware

Disks, NICs, power, cooling, fibre cuts, and other physical-layer faults that took systems offline.

Postmortems
24
Companies
17
Years covered
396
Date range
Aug 1628 – Nov 2023
Title Company Date Other categories
Cloudflare Control Plane and Analytics Outage due to Flexential Power Failure Cloudflare 2023-11-02 – 2023-11-04
Cascading Failure
Cloudflare service token incident on January 24, 2023 Cloudflare 2023-01-24
Automation Cloud Config Change Security
Google Cloud Networking packet loss May 2022 Google 2022-05-20
Automation Cloud Time
Roblox 73-hour outage due to Consul and BoltDB issues (October 2021) Roblox 2021-10-28 – 2021-10-31
Automation Config Change Time
PythonAnywhere storage volume failure on 7 July 2020 PythonAnywhere 2020-07-07
Cloud
GitHub October 2018 Service Degradation due to MySQL Failover GitHub 2018-10-21 – 2018-10-22
Automation Cloud Config Change Security
GoCardless API and Dashboard outage on 10 October 2017 GoCardless 2017-10-10
Automation Cloud Config Change
GitLab.com database outage of January 31, 2017 Gitlab 2017-01-31 – 2017-02-01
Automation Cloud Config Change
King's College London Strand Data Centre storage failure King's College London 2016-10-17
AWS Sydney Region EC2 and EBS power disruption Amazon 2016-06-05
Automation Cloud Config Change
GitHub January 28th, 2016 datacenter power disruption GitHub 2016-01-28
Automation Cascading Failure Cloud Config Change Security
Google Compute Engine Persistent Disk issue in europe-west1-b Google 2015-08-13 – 2015-08-16
Cloud Security
EVE Online long downtime on July 15th, 2015 CCP Games 2015-07-15
Cloud Config Change Security
GLONASS broadcast ephemerides corruption Roscosmos / GLONASS 2014-04-01 – 2014-04-02
AWS SA-EAST-1 Availability Zone Power and Network Incident, December 2013 Amazon 2013-12-18
Automation Cloud Config Change
AWS US-East Region Service Event of October 22, 2012 Amazon 2012-10-22 – 2012-10-23
Automation Cloud Config Change
India NEW grid blackouts Indian Electricity Grid (POSOCO / CERC) 2012-07-30 – 2012-07-31
Cascading Failure
AWS US East-1 power failure and service disruption in June 2012 Amazon 2012-06-30
Automation Cloud Config Change
Northeast blackout of 2003 FirstEnergy / General Electric 2003-08-14 – 2003-08-16
Cascading Failure Security
Northeast blackout U.S.-Canada Power System Outage Task Force 2003-08-14 – 2003-08-18
Cascading Failure
Therac-25 radiation overdose accidents Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) 1985-06-03 – 1987-01-17
Swedish warship Vasa sinks on maiden voyage Sweden 1628-08-10
Amazon EC2, EBS, and RDS EU West Region Service Event Amazon
Automation Cloud Config Change
Razorpay RDS Multi-AZ Failover and Data Loss in December 2019 Razorpay
Cloud Security