Question 1

Why does a cloud provider outage affect so many websites at once?

Accepted Answer

Millions of applications, websites, and services are hosted on a small number of cloud providers. When AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure experiences a regional failure, any service running in that region can go down — often without the hosting company having an official status update ready.

Question 2

Which cloud and hosting providers does DownStatus track?

Accepted Answer

DownStatus monitors major cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Vercel, and others. Live status for each is shown in the grid above.

Question 3

How quickly are cloud outages detected?

Accepted Answer

Cloud outages often affect developers and technical users who report problems quickly. DownStatus typically picks up a spike in reports within 5–15 minutes of an incident starting — often before the official status page is updated.

Question 4

What causes cloud outages?

Accepted Answer

Common causes include hardware failures in data centers, software bugs in control plane services, network routing issues, DNS failures, DDoS attacks, and misconfigurations from software deployments. Most major cloud providers publish post-incident reports explaining the root cause.

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