Multiple iCloud services down, iMessage and Photo Stream among affected [u]

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  • Reply 21 of 41


    OK. It's official. iCloud is pretty bad. No, pathetic.


     


    Apple should be embarrassed.

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  • Reply 22 of 41
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    A new notice at the status page indicates iTunes went out a little later this morning

    " iTunes Store - 8:57 AM - 9:42 AM - 16.6% of users were affected"
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  • Reply 23 of 41
    philboogiephilboogie Posts: 7,675member
    arlor wrote: »
    A very fair complaint, but some of Apple's competitors -- even bigger ones (e.g. AWS) -- manage more uptime.

    iCloud uses AWS. I don't know where these outages come from. Never had a problem at my end, so it looks like I'm in the 99% unaffected users part.
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  • Reply 24 of 41
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    philboogie wrote: »
    iCloud uses AWS. I don't know where these outages come from.

    AI had an article a few months back that claimed Microsoft's Azure rather than AWS IIRC. Perhaps they use a little of both. FWIW Azure is now bundling in some Oracle cloud stuff too.
    http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1964592
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  • Reply 25 of 41

    Originally Posted by patrickwalker View Post


    Maybe Apple should consider less in the way of stock buyback and more on infrastructure?


     


    Yep, you sure know how to run the wealthiest company on the planet, you do.


     


    Originally Posted by lkrupp View Post


    What would you do if the Internet went down? Go out and blow your brains out because you can't complain about it on some blog? Get some kind of grip will you.



     


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    Originally Posted by anantksundaram View Post


    OK. It's official. iCloud is pretty bad. No, pathetic.


     


    Apple should be embarrassed.



     


    For what, pre-iOS release maintenance? I don't think so.

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  • Reply 26 of 41
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    For what, pre-iOS release maintenance? I don't think so.

    Apple uses a different color for planned outages so this one doesn't appear to be planned "pre-release maintenance" does it? Further, how would you explain only 1% thereabouts as impacted if it was just preparation for iOS7 release? I'm not saying it is or isn't but nothing to me indicates it's a outage to be blamed on routine maintenance.
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  • Reply 27 of 41

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    Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post


     


    For what, pre-iOS release maintenance? I don't think so.



    Where'd you see that? Did Apple send you a notification warning you? If so, I certainly didn't get mine.

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  • Reply 28 of 41
    philboogiephilboogie Posts: 7,675member
    gatorguy wrote: »
    philboogie wrote: »
    iCloud uses AWS. I don't know where these outages come from.

    AI had an article a few months back that claimed Microsoft's Azure rather than AWS IIRC. Perhaps they use a little of both. FWIW Azure is now bundling in some Oracle cloud stuff too.
    http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/1964592

    There was a rumor article on AI:
    http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/03/rumor_apples_icloud_powered_by_microsoft_amazon_servers

    And I see both show up in router logs.
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  • Reply 29 of 41
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    philboogie wrote: »
    There was a rumor article on AI:
    http://appleinsider.com/articles/11/09/03/rumor_apples_icloud_powered_by_microsoft_amazon_servers

    And I see both show up in router logs.

    Thanks for finding the article. You're right that AI claimed both were being used. I had mistakenly remembered only Azure.
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  • Reply 30 of 41
    gatorguygatorguy Posts: 24,771member
    Fixed as of 11:22am after about 11 hours downtime.
    http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
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  • Reply 31 of 41


    The only thing I find 'perfect' here are the assholes that troll this site.

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  • Reply 32 of 41
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 6,006member


    Yay! Another iCloud outage. I see Tallest Skill is there to cover their asses yet again! Congratulations...I knew you'd be there for them!

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  • Reply 33 of 41
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 6,006member


    Well I'll post it again since it keeps getting deleted. I guess AI can't handle negative comments about Apple. 


     


     


    Yay! iCloud is down again! Its nice to see TS covering their ass like he always does. Good Job!

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  • Reply 34 of 41
    macxpressmacxpress Posts: 6,006member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Gatorguy View Post



    Fixed as of 11:22am after about 11 hours downtime.

    http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/


     


    That is completely unacceptable! 

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  • Reply 35 of 41
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Gatorguy View Post



    Fixed as of 11:22am after about 11 hours downtime.

    http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/


     


    For 1% of users. What a massive failure! I didn't even notice. Should I have?

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  • Reply 36 of 41
    lkrupplkrupp Posts: 10,557member

    Quote:

    Originally Posted by macxpress View Post


     


    That is completely unacceptable! 



     


    Well, accept it. Or what?

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  • Reply 37 of 41
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    lkrupp wrote: »
    gatorguy wrote: »
    Fixed as of 11:22am after about 11 hours downtime.
    http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

    For 1% of users. What a massive failure! I didn't even notice. Should I have?

    It says less than 0.1% of users affected for multiple services going offline. That could be 300k people but not a major outage like say Google knocking half the world out:

    http://news.sky.com/story/1129847/google-outage-internet-traffic-plunges-40-percent
    http://news.sky.com/story/1130621/google-stays-quiet-after-mystery-black-out

    Which is worse: half the world for 4 minutes or 300k people for 11 hours? The problem with these reports before the services go back up is news sites can't know how many people it affects until afterwards. It is news if it turns out to have affected a lot of people, otherwise it's just talking points for people who revel in seeing Apple fail.
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  • Reply 38 of 41
    froodfrood Posts: 771member


    It's not really even news anymore when iCloud goes down.  It is more news worthy when it is actually up.

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  • Reply 39 of 41

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    Originally Posted by stevecimelli View Post


    icloud is such a joke, how can anyone tell it's down?


     


    No FTP service anymore, no ability to host a domain here.   Calendaring is quirky, doesn't play well with Exchange any more (other users I interact with) and seems to be getting worse.


     


    I'm in the process of moving everything off of it.


     


    There have been rumors of an improved iCloud, but it will need to be mighty good for me to switch back to it.


     


    S



     


    You deserve Microsoft's services instead of Apple's. Currently the MS Skydrive is down along with several other services.

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  • Reply 40 of 41
    frood wrote: »
    It's not really even news anymore when iCloud goes down.  It is more news worthy when it is actually up.

    It's always up for me!
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