Tech Giants Stumble: Notable Outages In Recent Years

On July 19, 2024, a significant Microsoft outage disrupted flights, banking, media, and businesses globally for several hours

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Let's look back at some other notable tech outages in the past few years

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X Corp Outage

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Meta Outage

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Akamai Outage

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Fastly Outage

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage

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Google Outage

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Tech Giants Stumble: Notable Outages In Recent Years

On July 19, 2024, a significant Microsoft outage disrupted flights, banking, media, and businesses globally for several hours

Let's look back at some other notable tech outages in the past few years

X Corp Outage

The December 28, 2022, outage on Twitter prevented user posts and conversations for several hours

Meta Outage

A worldwide outage impacted users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp on October 4, 2021

Akamai Outage

A large-scale outage that impacted websites like GitHub and Airbnb occurred on July 22, 2021

Fastly Outage

The June 8, 2021 configuration issue caused disruptions to websites such as The New York Times and CNN

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage

A significant outage that impacted websites including Netflix and Disney+ occurred on December 7, 2021

Google Outage

A worldwide tech outage that affected Google services like YouTube and Gmail occurred on December 14, 2020