iCloud outage prevents some iMessages from being delivered [u]
Apple's iCloud service experienced an outage on Wednesday that affected some services, including the delivery of iMessages.
Users began contacting AppleInsider Wednesday afternoon to say that some of their iCloud accounts were having issues. Among the services affected were the iCloud website, including mail, as well as iMessages.
Apple's own system status website for iCloud notes that "some" users are affected by the outage, which began at 11:42 Pacific. The site promised that "normal service will be restored ASAP."
Other reports on Wednesday indicated that the iTunes Store also experienced some downtime, while some developers were unable to access Apple's developer portals for iOS and OS X.
The free iCloud service and its paid predecessor, MobileMe, have a history of outages that have affected users over the years. Apple gave no indication just how many users were impacted by Wednesday's particular outage.
Update: All iCloud services have been restored as of 1 p.m. PST according to Apple's iCloud Status Page.
iCloud Status restored. | Source: Apple
Users began contacting AppleInsider Wednesday afternoon to say that some of their iCloud accounts were having issues. Among the services affected were the iCloud website, including mail, as well as iMessages.
Apple's own system status website for iCloud notes that "some" users are affected by the outage, which began at 11:42 Pacific. The site promised that "normal service will be restored ASAP."
Other reports on Wednesday indicated that the iTunes Store also experienced some downtime, while some developers were unable to access Apple's developer portals for iOS and OS X.
The free iCloud service and its paid predecessor, MobileMe, have a history of outages that have affected users over the years. Apple gave no indication just how many users were impacted by Wednesday's particular outage.
Update: All iCloud services have been restored as of 1 p.m. PST according to Apple's iCloud Status Page.
iCloud Status restored. | Source: Apple
Comments
Oh well... They are still good for a three or four nines SLA.
Much better than BlackBerry.
Availability %
Downtime per year
Downtime per month*
Downtime per week
90% ("one nine")
36.5 days
72 hours
16.8 hours
95%
18.25 days
36 hours
8.4 hours
97%
10.96 days
21.6 hours
5.04 hours
98%
7.30 days
14.4 hours
3.36 hours
99% ("two nines")
3.65 days
7.20 hours
1.68 hours
99.5%
1.83 days
3.60 hours
50.4 minutes
99.8%
17.52 hours
86.23 minutes
20.16 minutes
99.9% ("three nines")
8.76 hours
43.2 minutes
10.1 minutes
99.95%
4.38 hours
21.56 minutes
5.04 minutes
99.99% ("four nines")
52.56 minutes
4.32 minutes
1.01 minutes
99.999% ("five nines")
5.26 minutes
25.9 seconds
6.05 seconds
99.9999% ("six nines")
31.5 seconds
2.59 seconds
0.605 seconds
99.99999% ("seven nines")
3.15 seconds
0.259 seconds
0.0605 seconds
These things reinforce my belief that "the cloud" is a backup, not to be used to support primary functions in most computing activity.
iwork didn't work either, dropbox did
Only one data center = single point of failure.
If Apple had a 3 day outage like Blackberry did, try to imagine the tech media shit-storm that would ensue.
Not good enough. I demand 100.01% uptime from iCloud, otherwise I demand a refund and tens of millions of dollars in damages.
In case some readers aren't familiar with how to check service status if they suspect there's an outage.
http://www.apple.com/support/icloud/systemstatus/
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Originally Posted by bdkennedy
Yeah and when it came back up iCloud removed all of the bookmarks I synced yesterday. Now I have to do them all over again.
Now we know what blew the iCloud off line.
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Originally Posted by Ray Bart
Ah where are the apple fans now?! Remember apple products are also not guaranteed to always work
So why would you want Apple to buy Facebook? Shouldn't Facebook be working all the time?
:broken_rolleyes_emoticon.gif:
Initially I was having all kinds of problems with the iTunes store but it seems to be fixed as of now. Thanks.
If the company's iCloud helps persuade the masses to embrace cloud-based services, that could help reverse more than a decade of sliding music sales
If the company's iCloud helps persuade the masses to embrace cloud-based services, that could help reverse more than a decade of sliding music sales