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GitHub Actions Outage Spans Over Eight Hours, Cascading Into Pages, Copilot, and Webhook Delivery
A GitHub Actions failure on August 6 knocked out workflows, Pages, and Copilot for over eight hours, extending a run of dozens of monthly incidents this year.
Microsoft Blames Automated Maintenance Bug for Five-Hour Azure and Microsoft 365 Outage in West US
A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.
AWS CloudFront Outage Knocks Sites Offline as VPC Origins Configuration Failure Cascades Across Regions
A CloudFront routing-configuration failure tied to VPC Origins triggered widespread 5xx errors on July 16, hitting Hugging Face and the UK National Lottery before AWS restored service.
Botched Network Update Triggers 12-Hour Google Cloud VMware Engine Outage Across Three Regions
A faulty network configuration update severed inter-zone links in Google Cloud VMware Engine stretched clusters across Sydney, Melbourne, and Frankfurt for nearly 12 hours on July 14.
Snowflake Commits $6 Billion to AWS Over Five Years, Its Largest Infrastructure Deal Yet, With Graviton and GPU Compute at the Center
Snowflake's $6 billion, five-year AWS commitment is 2.4 times its 2023 deal, leaning on Graviton CPUs and GPU-accelerated EC2 to power agentic AI workloads.
AWS US-EAST-1 Thermal Event Forces Coinbase Into Manual Disaster Recovery as Cooling Failure Damages EC2 Hardware
A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.