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Top Internet and Cloud Outages of 2017

Posted by Archana Kesavan on January 17th, 2018

January 17th, 2018

Now that we have rung in the new year and settled into our daily routine, let’s take a few minutes to reflect on the state of the Internet and key outages that shook the world in 2017. Over the past few years, as we analyze many such outage events, we’ve noticed an undeniable trend that governs today’s cloud era: The Internet is the backbone of human communication. We start and end our day with it. Be it calling a ride to work or ordering dinner on the way back, the Internet has a part to play in our quality of life. Which is why when it breaks, it causes havoc.… Read More »

Comcast Suffers Outage Due to Significant Level 3 BGP Route Leak

Posted by Archana Kesavan on November 7th, 2017

November 8th, 2017

On Monday morning, November 6th 2017, from 9:45am-11:25am Pacific, Comcast suffered a nationwide outage sending several million users of the popular Internet Service Provider into a frenzy. Our analysis has revealed that Level 3 leaked over a thousand routes belonging to Comcast subsidiary networks and their customers. The immediate effect was that instead of traffic going through the Comcast backbone to reach these networks, traffic was forced to go via Level 3.… Read More »

What Happened When Marketo’s Domain Name Expired?

Posted by Young Xu on July 26th, 2017

August 1st, 2017

On Tuesday, July 25th, 2017 at 4:25am Pacific, all services related to Marketo’s domain “marketo.com” began experiencing an outage. The outage continues to have impacts at the time of writing. Marketo is a marketing automation software widely used by companies around the world—when Marketo went down on Tuesday, forms on many companies’ websites broke completely. Many users were unable to access the Marketo platform or even email Marketo employees, since Marketo mail servers were also inaccessible.… Read More »

Rostelecom Route Leak Targets E-Commerce Services

Posted by Nick Kephart on May 1st, 2017

May 1st, 2017

Last week Rostelecom, one of Russia’s largest, partially state-owned Internet service providers, leaked dozens of routes pertaining to IP addresses that belong to major financial services firms. This route leak redirected Internet traffic bound for these financial firms to Rostelcom, as some routers around the Internet decided that the new, leaked routes were preferable to the legitimate ones. … Read More »

AWS S3 Outage Likely Caused by Internal Network Issue

Posted by Young Xu on February 28th, 2017

November 10th, 2017

On Tuesday, February 28th, 2017, the US-East-1 region of Amazon Web Services S3 saw a complete outage from 9:40am to 12:36pm PST. AWS S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a cloud object storage solution that many services rely on to store and retrieve files from anywhere on the web. In addition, many other AWS services that depend on S3 – Elastic Load Balancers, Redshift data warehouse, Relational Database Service and others – also had limited to no functionality. … Read More »

What Does Collective Intelligence Mean for Network Ops?

Posted by Young Xu on January 4th, 2017

February 10th, 2017

Over the past year, we’ve witnessed the development of a new and important movement in the networking community: Collective Intelligence. While the meaning of Collective Intelligence has evolved, its emergence indicates an increasingly apparent need for useful data collected from a variety of vantage points, that is efficiently analyzed to produce actionable insights.… Read More »

Top Internet Outages of 2016

Posted by Archana Kesavan on December 20th, 2016

January 18th, 2017

As we sip on warm holiday beverages and gradually wind down the year, it’s rather customary to reflect on the past and contemplate the future. Following traditions, we took a stroll down memory lane analyzing the state of the Internet and the “cloud”. In today’s blog post we discuss some of the most impactful outages of 2016, understand common trends and evaluate some of the key learnings.… Read More »

Three Types of DDoS Attacks

Posted by Archana Kesavan on November 15th, 2016

November 16th, 2016

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been a popular topic of discussion in the past few months. We have seen a flurry of prominent DDoS attacks, such as the attacks on DNS root servers and the Dyn DNS outage, with widespread impact and the potential to disrupt communications worldwide.… Read More »

NANOG 68: Decoding Performance Data from Large-Scale Internet Outages

Posted by Young Xu on November 7th, 2016

November 7th, 2016

At NANOG 68 in Dallas, TX on October 18, 2016, ThousandEyes CEO Mohit Lad presented on recent outages that had large-scale effects on Internet infrastructure and availability. During his talk, Mohit discussed three recent, impactful events: the June 2016 DNS root server DDoS, the May 2016 Sea-Me-We-4 cable cut and the April 2016 AWS route leak. … Read More »