Suspicious this is. The fact that it is happening to other sites and services too.
Was my thought. Interesno Nyet?
Both Google and AWS Cloud services indicate all is good at the moment, and no outages in the past 24 hours. There's no indication the fault lies with either of those two Apple Cloud storage providers.
This is not isolated to Apple; lots of spikes in reported failures on DownDetector for cellular providers, landline ISP's, Spotify, PoF, stock market apps, etc. This seems wide-spread and not internal to Apple.
Also yesterday Twitch was behaving very poorly too. Dropped frames and everything.
Could be. I did get a notification when the PR service went down and later on when it was restored. While PR was in the failing state, prior to the notification of PR failure, I was unable to attach to my iCloud account. However, when PR was disabled by iOS I was able to get to my iCloud settings.
All kinds of problems today. This afternoon I was unable to download an app. Internet hanging all over the place. Third-party apps encountering network errors. So it certainly wasn’t just Apple. I have it on good authority that it is in fact likely related to what’s happening in Europe. I know someone who keeps a close eye on Internet traffic and whose job involves looking for anomalies in terms of cyber attacks.
Suspicious this is. The fact that it is happening to other sites and services too.
Was my thought. Interesno Nyet?
Both Google and AWS Cloud services indicate all is good at the moment, and no outages in the past 24 hours. There's no indication the fault lies with either of those two Apple Cloud storage providers.
I don’t remember mentioning or blaming Google.
Ah, but you still have issues with comprehension I see.
Sort of. They way it works over there is Putin, via his crime posse, has made it clear that Russian hackers can do whatever they want, as long as they leave Russian systems alone. If they hack anyone or anything outside Russia, there will be no serious consequences. But Ol' Poutine operates like Hitler in that he does not give any written commands. His (ill) will is expressed via his lackies and only verbally. So the outages may very well have come from Russia, but there will be no trail to Putin.
Sort of. They way it works over there is Putin, via his crime posse, has made it clear that Russian hackers can do whatever they want, as long as they leave Russian systems alone. If they hack anyone or anything outside Russia, there will be no serious consequences. But Ol' Poutine operates like Hitler in that he does not give any written commands. His (ill) will is expressed via his lackies and only verbally. So the outages may very well have come from Russia, but there will be no trail to Putin.
Yes, Putin’s model is sanctioning cyber terrorists by allowing them to freely operate as long as they don’t attack anything Russian. As opposed to the Pooh (Xi), who has his own cyber command of expert hackers. The latter might be more efficient and easier to control and direct at specific targets. But it’s also a way more dangerous way if attacks can be traced back to them.
So yes, all ways lead to Poohtin. But in two distinctly different ways.
Whatever the cause of the outage was, I had to fire up Waze for the first time in nearly a decade (luckily I do keep the app updated) in order to find a meeting's location directions.
Waze did indeed get me there, but the experience was pretty bad and the voice ... was robotic, to put it mildly. Doesn't seem like it has progressed much since Google bought it.
Was very happy when Siri, Maps, Podcasts, and the rest finally updated. "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" sang the sage ...
Well I checked on downdetector.com and it coincided with massive issues on AWS (as well as several other online services). The graphs looked literally identical between all of those. Interesting how dependent Apple still is from AWS Service apparently.
Whatever the cause of the outage was, I had to fire up Waze for the first time in nearly a decade (luckily I do keep the app updated) in order to find a meeting's location directions.
Waze did indeed get me there, but the experience was pretty bad and the voice ... was robotic, to put it mildly. Doesn't seem like it has progressed much since Google bought it.
Was very happy when Siri, Maps, Podcasts, and the rest finally updated. "You don't know what you've got till it's gone" sang the sage ...
I still keep a map in my glove box.
Much of our staff have always chuckled at an incessant need for "paper backup" of our most frequently changing flowsheets & events like these in the middle of the work day prove why.
It also made us realize that Apple's current instance of a caching server is not as robust as we would like - iCloud being down seemed to stop the cached data from being served as well. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675
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Could be. I did get a notification when the PR service went down and later on when it was restored. While PR was in the failing state, prior to the notification of PR failure, I was unable to attach to my iCloud account. However, when PR was disabled by iOS I was able to get to my iCloud settings.
Sort of. They way it works over there is Putin, via his crime posse, has made it clear that Russian hackers can do whatever they want, as long as they leave Russian systems alone. If they hack anyone or anything outside Russia, there will be no serious consequences. But Ol' Poutine operates like Hitler in that he does not give any written commands. His (ill) will is expressed via his lackies and only verbally. So the outages may very well have come from Russia, but there will be no trail to Putin.
So yes, all ways lead to Poohtin. But in two distinctly different ways.
Waze did indeed get me there, but the experience was pretty bad and the voice ... was robotic, to put it mildly. Doesn't seem like it has progressed much since Google bought it.
I still keep a map in my glove box.
Much of our staff have always chuckled at an incessant need for "paper backup" of our most frequently changing flowsheets & events like these in the middle of the work day prove why.
It also made us realize that Apple's current instance of a caching server is not as robust as we would like - iCloud being down seemed to stop the cached data from being served as well.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204675