IBM Cloud suffers prolonged outage

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The

IBM Cloud

is currently suffering a major outage, and with that, multiple services that are hosted on the platform are also down, including everybody’s favorite tech news aggregator, Techmeme

.

It looks like the problems started around 2:30pm PT and spread from there. Best we can tell, this is a worldwide problem and involves a networking issue, but

IBM’s

own status page

isn’t actually loading anymore and returns an internal server error, so we don’t quite know the extent of the outage or what triggered it. IBM Cloud’s Twitter account has also remained silent, though we found a status page for IBM Aspera

hosted on a third-party server, which seems to confirm that this is likely a worldwide networking issue.

IBM Cloud,

which published a paper about ensuring zero downtime in April

, also suffered a minor outage in its Dallas data center

in March.

We’ve reached out to IBM’s PR team and will update this post once we get more information.

Very sorry if Techmeme or Mediagazer or memeorandum are not loading for you at the moment. They depend on IBM Cloud, which appears to be having severe issues that they apparently have not reported anywhere:

https://t.co/Ob73t8Jdrk

Gabe Rivera (@gaberivera)

June 9, 2020