Internet Outage Atlas · The Map

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Press play to watch a quarter-century of outages ripple across the world

Press Play the record to sweep from 1997 to today and watch each outage strike in order, or drag the dial to any year. Solid marks are incidents tied to a place; hollow marks are fault origins for failures whose impact still spread worldwide. The incidents in the Worldwide Ledger struck everywhere at once and resist a single dot.

Pakistan Telecom Blacks Out YouTube for the World: fault origin: Pakistan Telecom / AS17557 (Islamabad, PK) (February 2008) Indosat BGP Hijack: fault origin: Indosat (AS4761), Jakarta, Indonesia (April 2014) AxcelX and AWS Route Leak: fault origin: Boston, MA (AxcelX / AS33083) (July 2015) AWS S3 US-East-1 Outage: fault origin: us-east-1 (N. Virginia) (February 2017) MainOne and Google Route Leak: fault origin: Lagos, Nigeria (MainOne AS37282) (November 2018) Verizon Route Leak Disrupts 15 Percent of Global Internet Traffic: fault origin: Verizon AS701 / DQE Communications (Pittsburgh, PA region) (June 2019) Facebook Global Blackout: fault origin: Meta backbone (recovery at Santa Clara, CA data center) (October 2021) AWS US-East-1 Control-Plane Outage: fault origin: us-east-1 (N. Virginia) (December 2021) AWS DynamoDB DNS Failure: fault origin: us-east-1 (N. Virginia) (October 2025) NotPetya Global Outage: fault origin: Kyiv, Ukraine (M.E.Doc update servers) (June 2017) AT&T / T-Mobile / Verizon Roaming Outage: fault origin: Syniverse HQ (Tampa, FL) — global roaming/signaling hub (2024) Telekom Malaysia Route Leak Cripples Level 3 and the Global Internet: fault origin: Telekom Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) (June 2015) Microsoft 365 Outage: fault origin: North America (Microsoft 365 service infrastructure) (2026) Hurricane Katrina Telecom Failures: New Orleans, LA (August 2005) Hurricane Katrina Telecom Failures: Mississippi Gulf Coast (Biloxi/Gulfport) (August 2005) Hurricane Katrina Telecom Failures: Slidell / southeast Louisiana (August 2005) The Planet Houston Outage: Houston, TX (The Planet H1 datacenter) (February 2008) AWS EC2 Failure Exposes Limits of Availability Zone Isolation: us-east-1 (N. Virginia) (April 2011) CenturyLink 911 Outage: Denver, CO (fault-origin node; impact nationwide across 39 US states) (December 2018) Comcast Fiber Cut Outage: New York, NY (June 2018) Comcast Fiber Cut Outage: Philadelphia, PA (June 2018) Comcast Fiber Cut Outage: North Carolina (CenturyLink fiber cut) (June 2018) Google Cloud Networking Outage: us-east4 (N. Virginia/Ashburn) (June 2019) Google Cloud Networking Outage: us-west2 (Los Angeles) (June 2019) Google Cloud Networking Outage: southamerica-east1 (São Paulo) (June 2019) Google Cloud Networking Outage: northamerica-northeast1 (Montréal) (June 2019) Rogers Canada: 12 Million Without Service, Including 911: Canada (nationwide; Rogers HQ, Toronto) (July 2022) GCP us-east4 Traffic Loss: us-east4 (Ashburn / N. Virginia) (2023) Verizon Mobile Outage: United States (nationwide) (2024) Verizon Mobile Outage: New York City, NY (2026) Verizon Mobile Outage: Washington, DC (2026) Verizon Mobile Outage: Chicago, IL (2026) AWS Middle East Drone-strike Outage: AWS me-central-1 (UAE) (2026) AWS Middle East Drone-strike Outage: AWS me-south-1 (Bahrain) (2026)
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