[Outages-discussion] [outages] Discord, Wikipedia, Spotify, AWS down - common denominator?

[Andy Ringsmuth]

Discord actually does have a Status page:

https://discordstatus.com

And currently says:


Update - Oncall Engineering continues to investigate the root cause of this issue. We have engaged our partners and are preparing contingencies to restore service. 
Mar 8, 10:59 PST
Update - We are continuing to investigate the issue impacting the API to find root cause. 
Mar 8, 10:29 PST
Investigating - While monitoring this issue a new issue has occurred causing an major outage of the API. Oncall Engineering is working to correct this situation. 
Mar 8, 10:12 PST
Update - As part of recovery, the root cause was also detected in our streaming service. A controlled restart was performed of this service which would have caused a temporary disruption of streaming, this should be operating correctly at this time. 
Mar 8, 10:08 PST
Monitoring - Remediations appear to have restored service to normal operation, Oncall Engineering will monitor for full recovery 
Mar 8, 09:54 PST
Identified - The root cause has been determined, remediations have been executed to restore service. 
Mar 8, 09:53 PST
Investigating - We are currently investigating an increase in API Errors and Push Notification Errors. 
Mar 8, 09:16 PST


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> On Mar 8, 2022, at 12:54 PM, Phineas Walton via Outages <outages at outages.org> wrote:
> 
> A lot of services seem to be having issues - I know Discord and
> Spotify use GCP but the rest don't (to my knowledge). I wonder what
> the common denominator to these widespread outages is.
> 
> Services with reported issues:
> - Discord (completely down)
> - Spotify (completely down)
> - Wikipedia (completely down)
> - AWS
> - Twitter
> - GCP
> - Youtube
> - Facebook / Instagram
> - Cloudflare
> - Twitch
> 
> https://downdetector.com
> 
> Phin
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