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Admins were also told that they could find more information regarding these ongoing problems in the admin center under EX401976 and OL401977. While Redmond did not reveal the scale of the issue, thousands of reports have been submitted in the past 24 hours on DownDetector by Outlook and Exchange Online users who have either been unable or experienced difficulties when trying to log in or email.
While the Twitter API status page shows no issues for today, almost 55,000 users have reported over the past 30 minutes that that the service is not working. At the time of writing, the browser version of the Twitter app is showing the typical "Something went wrong, but don't fret - it's not your fault" errors.
Over the weekend, Rogers Communications CEO Tony Staffieri revealed the telecom company believes a maintenance update was what caused last week's massive outage. "We now believe we've narrowed the cause to a network system failure following a maintenance update in our core network, which caused some of our routers to malfunction early Friday morning," Staffieri said in a statement published Saturday.
A massive Rogers outage is causing widespread disruption in Canada due to lack of mobile service, inability to process payment card transactions, and impacting 911 emergency services. According to DownDetector, the outage started at around 5 AM EST, with customers suddenly unable to make phone calls or connect to the Internet.
Microsoft has revealed that this week's Microsoft 365 worldwide outage was caused by an infrastructure power outage that led to traffic management servicing failovers in multiple regions. Starting on Monday, June 20, at 11:00 PM UTC, customers began experiencing and reporting several issues while trying to access and use Microsoft 365 services.
Cloudflare says a massive outage that affected more than a dozen of its data centers and hundreds of major online platforms and services today was caused by a change that should have increased network resilience."Today, June 21, 2022, Cloudflare suffered an outage that affected traffic in 19 of our data centers," Cloudflare said after investigating the incident.
An ongoing outage affects multiple Microsoft 365 services, with customers worldwide reporting delays, sign-in failures, and issues accessing their accounts. The affected services include the Exchange Online hosted email platform for businesses and the Microsoft Teams communication platform, as well as SharePoint Online, the Graph API, and Universal Print.
As the company's Chief Technology Officer Sri Viswanath revealed on April 14th, nine days after the incident started, a maintenance script accidentally wiped hundreds of customer sites due to communication issues between two Atlassian teams working on deactivating a legacy app. The 14-day-long outage impacted a very small set of Atlassian customers between April 5th and April 18th. The first set of impacted sites was restored until April 8th and the rest of the affected customer sites by April 18th. During the incident, the following Atlassian products have been unavailable for impacted customers: the entire Jira family of products, Confluence, Atlassian Access, Opsgenie, and Statuspage.
Atlassian has finally revealed the exact cause of an ongoing cloud services outage the company estimates could impact some of its customers for up to two more weeks. When we first reported on this outage, Atlassian told us that a routine maintenance script blocked some customers' access to their data after "Unintentionally" disabled the sites of roughly 400 out of its over 200,000 customers.
Atlassian, a UK-based company making software development and collaboration tools, estimates it might take two more weeks to restore all customer instances impacted by a week-long ongoing outage affecting its cloud services. While the impact on businesses using its products is undeniable, Atlassian said only around 400 of its more than 200,000 customers are affected.