2024 is coming to an end in a few days. Although this year will be remembered for many good things, many of its bad memories will not leave people. This year will also be a bittersweet one for the tech industry. On the one hand, the world’s fastest quantum chip has been launched. Meanwhile, tens of millions of users are still stuck for hours amid this year’s service outage. Especially due to service problems of large technology companies such as Microsoft, Google, X, Meta, etc., millions of dollars of losses have occurred. Come on, let’s take a look at the big service outages of 2024…
Microsoft (CrowdStrike outage)
On July 19, 2024, approximately 8.5 million or 8.5 million computers around the world stopped working. These computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system begin to shut down automatically. This happens because the security service provider company CrowdStrike released a wrong security update for Falcon. The update was released on July 19 at 4:09 UTC, with fixes released approximately 6 hours later at 09:45 UTC. During this time, millions of computers around the world crashed.
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Yuan (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)
In 2024, Meta experienced several service outages. Most outages were fixed within minutes, but due to a server outage that occurred at 15:00 UTC on March 5, 2024, users were unable to log in to Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads. About four hours later, Meta issued a statement saying there was a problem with the server.
X Global blackout
Servers at Elon Musk’s microblogging platform X (formerly Twitter) have experienced several outages this year. In August and September, users around the world were plagued by problems with X’s servers. On August 28 and September 7, X detected major outages that prevented millions of users in the Americas and Asia from logging into their accounts.
Tech giant Google has seen major outages across many of its services this year, lasting several hours. On July 30, August 8, September 18, October 18, 21, 29 and November 15, many Google services were paralyzed, and tens of millions of users around the world were in trouble. On September 18, Google Cloud services were disrupted for about 6 hours. At the same time, on October 18, users were troubled by the downtime of Gmail for iOS for 5 hours and 45 hours.
IRCTC
Hundreds of thousands of passengers had difficulty booking tickets due to server problems on the Indian Railways booking platform IRCTC. The IRCTC server went down at 9:59 am on December 9, preventing people from booking Tatkal tickets. After a few minutes, the IRCTC server became normal. During this period, users encountered many problems.
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