Internet Outage Atlas · Platform and software cascades

Google Global 5-minute Outage

Platform failure · August 2013

A brief but iconic Google outage took major services offline at the same time and became a durable example of how concentrated platform ecosystems can vanish all at once, even during a short failure.

A short outage at a concentrated platform can still expose outsized systemic dependence.
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