AWS experiences power issues at Northern Virginia cloud region, causing limited outage
Caused by thermal event
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NorthC data center outside Amsterdam suffers fire
Firefighters still fighting blaze
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Internet outages spike in Q1 2026, says Cloudflare
Iran War largely to blame
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Bangladesh telcos warn of network shutdowns amid oil shortage crisis
AMTOB calls on government to prioritize network operators with fuel
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AST SpaceMobile’s BlueBird 7 “lost” by Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin New Glenn rocket launch
D2D contender sees £2bn slump in market cap after engine failure, but still expects BlueBirds 8-10 to ship in next 30 days
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Australia's Vocus restores services after fiber cut impacted customers in Victoria and New South Wales
Services were restored in the evening following morning fiber cut
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Hardware error causes major IT outage at gov't data center in Saarland, Germany
Up to a petabyte of data will have to be migrated to a backup system
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Iran threatens to attack OpenAI's Stargate data center in UAE
After hitting Amazon and Oracle data centers
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Starlink satellite suffers incident – likely broken into pieces
SpaceX promises no risk to ISS or NASA missions
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HostDime suffers downtime at UK data center due to contractual dispute with colocation provider
Brings down HostDime customer workloads as well
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AWS Bahrain region "disrupted" by drone activity as war in Middle East continues to impact data centers
Cloud giant moves more customers to other regions
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Subsea cable linking Orkney Islands breaks
Services disrupted for hundreds of residents, no timelines on fix
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Data center site outside Amarillo, Texas, evacuated after nearby grassfire
Smoke forces people to leave site after car crash starts grassfire
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Eutelsat terminates contracts with Russian state’s AT1 and AT2 satellites after malfunction
Unexplained malfunction may have permitted the operator to dodge early termination fees
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SES satellite teleport in Israel struck by Hezbollah missile
Social media footage shows damage to several antennas
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Bank data center struck by missile in Iran – report
Iran says banking targets in the region are now fair game in retaliation
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Microsoft suffered "power interruption" at West US cloud region in February
Details problem in incident report, with full outage avoided
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Israel and US bomb data centers in Tehran, following Iran's drone strikes on AWS
As data centers increasingly become targets in war
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TikTok experiences issues at US data center, but avoids full outage
After major power outage earlier this year
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Hot air balloon strikes radio tower in Texas
Two individuals rescued safely; no disruption caused
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Worker injured after transformer explosion at Vantage data center in San Antonio, Texas
Transformer reportedly close to gas tank
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Amazon confirms two UAE data centers hit by drone strikes, third in Bahrain damaged
As Iran strikes the Middle East following US and Israeli attacks
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AWS UAE suffers AZ outage after "objects strike data center" and cause fire, amid Iran attacks
Availability Zone in ME-CENTRAL-1 brought offline in possible drone or missile attack
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Cryptominer NFN8 files for bankruptcy, following data center fire and Bitcoin price crash
Company was also impacted by Core Scientific's previous bankruptcy proceedings
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Cloudflare experiences latency issues at New Jersey data center
DownDector suggests X and AWS also experiencing issues, though AWS refutes this
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Ukrainian partisan group disables Russian comms infrastructure in Belgorod
And warns that it will continue to target Russian telecoms infrastructure
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Ukrainian guerrilla group attacks Russian comms infrastructure in Kherson region
Following the attack, the equipment has stopped working normally
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TikTok says outage is resolved, confirms it was an Oracle data center
Issues were caused by the harsh winter storm