Apple's iCloud services again hit by global outage
The iCloud suite of services experienced an outage Tuesday morning, marking yet another period of downtime for Apple's cloud-based operations.
Update: Later on Tuesday, Apple's iCloud System Status page was updated to reflect downtime for account and sign-in, Apple ID creation, the iTunes Store, and Game Center. Some of the outages spanned more than 5 hours.
The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends. Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a "Connection Error" message that explained that "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."
The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning, as readers from around the globe reached out to AppleInsider to detail their own issues.
Despite the multitude of issues, Apple's iCloud System Status website claimed that all iCloud services were online and operational. No downtime was noted by the company.
Issues with iCloud uptime are not new, but the company has seen a number of service outages in recent weeks. Just last Friday, its iCloud-based email service saw a 27-hour outage before operation returned to normal.
A week prior, Apple's iMessage and FaceTime services saw two outages in a span of just a few days. Apple's iCloud System Status page revealed that the problem affected "some users."
Update: Later on Tuesday, Apple's iCloud System Status page was updated to reflect downtime for account and sign-in, Apple ID creation, the iTunes Store, and Game Center. Some of the outages spanned more than 5 hours.
The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends. Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a "Connection Error" message that explained that "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."
The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning, as readers from around the globe reached out to AppleInsider to detail their own issues.
Despite the multitude of issues, Apple's iCloud System Status website claimed that all iCloud services were online and operational. No downtime was noted by the company.
Issues with iCloud uptime are not new, but the company has seen a number of service outages in recent weeks. Just last Friday, its iCloud-based email service saw a 27-hour outage before operation returned to normal.
A week prior, Apple's iMessage and FaceTime services saw two outages in a span of just a few days. Apple's iCloud System Status page revealed that the problem affected "some users."
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Maybe Apple's extended silence will turn out to be a stroke of genius.
Here's where Apple could spend some of its billions...on more cloud infrastructure.
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
Here's where Apple could spend some of its billions...on more cloud infrastructure.
Aren't they doing that already?
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Originally Posted by kozchris
Am I the only one who has not seen any issues with iCloud? I have never had any issues when any of these reports say I should be. I am on the computer for the better part of every day so you would think I would see some issue.
iTunes Match was wonky for a little bit this morning, but fine now. Everything else seems to be working fine too.
Their internet connection probably had a hiccup... but hey, let's blame it on Apple.
They need to get it together. Too many disruptions the last couple of weeks. They are subpar in their cloud services.
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Originally Posted by kozchris
Am I the only one who has not seen any issues with iCloud? I have never had any issues when any of these reports say I should be. I am on the computer for the better part of every day so you would think I would see some issue.
Same here. Multiple macs, iPads, and an iPhone, and no issues at all. And while outages don't necessarily affect all users, headlines about "global outages" certainly carry that kind of implication (even if there's a reading of "a few users scattered around the globe").
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Originally Posted by mvigod
If Steve Jobs was alive people would be getting fired for all these outages. Tim Cook will be promoting them with large cash bonuses to keep them on
Like the promotion he gave Scott Forstall, right?
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Originally Posted by ghostface147
They need to get it together. Too many disruptions the last couple of weeks. They are subpar in their cloud services.
Both Google and Amazon had disruptions this last few weeks. Really huge ones.
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
Maybe they need to do more? Just seems like a lot of outages lately.
Maybe they need some more? Aren't you following the news? They are opening data centers everywhere! Should they rush it or carefully plan things out?
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Originally Posted by logic368
hmm... i wonder what's been going on... and going wrong. how do you explain these problems??
Grow up. This is how technology works. I worked 34 years for at&t in the central office, maintaining telecom equipment. Everything had redundant hardware as well as redundant software backups, multiple network paths, etc. Even the power for this equipment had A and B paths with physically different wiring routes to prevent accidental disruption of power. The whole thing is designed to survive component failure, accidents, and stupidity. But guess what? We STILL had outages from time to time. Anything designed and maintained by human beings WILL fail.
We hear about this stuff when it's Apple but it happens all the time, every day. We just don't hear about it. We experience schadenfreude when it happens to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Yahoo, Toyota, etc. But when it's Apple we wring our hands and ask how this could happen.
Shit happens. It really is that simple.