Steve Troughton-Smith

There seems to have been a huge uptick in Apple services outages over the past six months. Is AWS/Akamai no longer able to handle their scale? Has Apple tried to move things in-house and is finding out the hard way why that's so hard? Or has internet infrastructure in general just been under a huge amount of DDOS attacks lately?

All the above?

May 17, 2023 at 11:46pmIvory for Mac
Show threadDavid SkuzaMay 17, 2023
@stroughtonsmith no I think you did something
Show threadRandy Luecke 🤦🏼‍♂️May 17, 2023
@stroughtonsmith I've been assuming they're rolling out new stuff as we get closer to WWDC.
Show threadChristarpherMay 18, 2023
@stroughtonsmith Weather alone has been out at least like 5 times in the last 2 months.
Show threadPratik PatelMay 18, 2023
@stroughtonsmith And, is it why the iCloud chief left to go work for GM?
Show threadJonathan LaCourMay 18, 2023
@stroughtonsmith Apple has been historically awful at operating 24/7 services. I can tell you for certain that there are AWS customers with shocking scale that don’t experience the number of outages that Apple does. I think it’s a DNA thing, sort of like their ineptitude with Siri.