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Posted on 11/16/2021 12:36:57 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Update (1330ET): Internet tracking website NetBlocks confirms the widespread internet outage is "due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering.
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ℹ️ Note: Several online services including Spotify, Snapchat and Etsy have been experiencing international outages due to a Google Cloud Networking technical fault; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering pic.twitter.com/KGfLKfgcUN — NetBlocks (@netblocks) November 16, 2021
Here's Google Cloud Status Dashboard laying out the errors.
The outage has left 29k website offline worldwide. 
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Downdector reports dozens of major websites began experiencing disruptions or outages around 1240 ET. Users are saying AWS and Google Cloud are down and could be the culprit behind the widespread outage.
Websites such as Spotify, Etsy, Snapchat, Discord, Google, Target, Google Cloud, and AWS, among others, are experiencing disruptions or outages.
According to a Cloudflare status update, "it is investigating issues with the logging component within Gateway. Gateway's logging may be impacted. We are working to understand the full impact and mitigate this problem. More updates to follow shortly."
Cloudflare provides DNS and CDN (content delivery network) services and powers for about 40% of the internet. If one of the company's networks goes down, like what happened in July, widespread disruptions are seen.
Looks like another Cloudflare backbone fiasco pic.twitter.com/4JaaZ18k99
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) November 16, 2021
About 27k websites across the world are down.
Here's what Twitter is saying about the outage:
@vitalsource is the website down? I was in the middle of reading when it stopped working pic.twitter.com/4UBPIIG9Or — Lizette 🦋 (@_lizettesanz31) November 16, 2021
@kulula website down? :( pic.twitter.com/RxA62XzzlG — Greg (@greper) November 16, 2021
*This story is developing
In before the Robinhood conspiracy theorists claim it’s RH keeping them from cashing in their GME puts. LOL
I was raking the leaves in my yard so it didn’t impact me in any way, shape or form
Someday some hacker will shut everything down and demand billions. What a system.
My dog started barking—now I know why!
;-)
Last week it was Comcast/Verizon/Xfinity with issues.
Someone is testing our systems...
Who cares, as long as I can still get into Free Republic?
Makes no difference to me either.
Glad all my stuff is on the hard drive on my Vista pc /s
The wife has been on Etsy all afternoon Christmas shopping, no issue. One of the largest issues with the agenda is security. It’s on their front page. My guess, these are tests to see where weakness’s exist.
Putting all the eggs in one basket.
My Chromebook via Comcast Business is working fine today.
Late yesterday afternoon I could not get off any Google site once I finally got there.
Glad all my stuff is on paper.
I have been online most of the day with no issues.
hmmm. my yahoo email seems to be dead too.
no emails in over 30 min??
This is why I never put personal items on the Internet, anywhere!
hmmm. my yahoo email seems to be dead too.
no emails in over 30 min??
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
false alarm
just sent & received an email to myself
Did you get any intelligent answers?
Probably the precursor to an invasion. I guess we’ll have to decide whether to pick up that turkey or fight.
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