AWS’s November 2020 Kinesis outage began with a modest capacity addition that pushed front-end servers over operating-system thread limits and cascaded into dependent AWS services.
AWS’s December 2021 US-EAST-1 outage showed how congestion on an internal network could impair monitoring, control planes, support tooling, and customer services all at once.
In February 2013 an expired Windows Azure Storage SSL certificate broke HTTPS access worldwide, showing how a simple lifecycle deadline could become a cloud-scale dependency failure.
Google Cloud’s June 2019 outage began when maintenance automation descheduled network-control software across multiple locations, turning independent safeguards into correlated failure.
Amazon S3’s 2017 US-EAST-1 outage began with an authorized maintenance command whose incorrect input removed far more capacity than intended and exposed hidden regional dependencies.
Atlassian's 2022 cleanup script deleted hundreds of customer cloud sites after site IDs were mistaken for app IDs, exposing the difficulty of large-scale tenant restoration.