body { font-family: sans-serif; max-width: 860px; margin: 40px auto; padding: 0 20px; color: #e2e8f0; background: #0d1117; line-height: 1.7; } h1 { font-size: 2rem; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; color: #f0f6ff; } h2 { font-size: 1.25rem; margin-top: 2.5rem; color: #c8d6ef; } p, li { color: #8fa3bf; } a { color: #4fa3d1; } ul { padding-left: 1.5rem; } Blackout Observatory — Real-Time Internet Infrastructure Monitor Blackout Observatory tracks live outages, degraded services, and infrastructure incidents across 100+ cloud providers, AI platforms, CDNs, DNS services, and developer tools. Monitoring includes AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, OpenAI, Cloudflare, GitHub, Stripe, Discord, Slack, Vercel, and many more. What We Monitor The platform ingests real-time signals from official status pages (Atlassian Statuspage, AWS Health, GCP Status, Azure Service Health), crowdsourced outage reports, and independent synthetic checks. Incidents are classified by severity, geographic scope, and affected service category.

Cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, DigitalOcean, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner, OVHcloud

AI and ML platforms: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google AI, Hugging Face, Cohere, Mistral AI, Perplexity AI, DeepSeek, Groq, Together AI

CDN and edge: Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, AWS CloudFront, Bunny.net, KeyCDN

Developer platforms: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Vercel, Netlify, Render, Railway, Fly.io

Payment and SaaS: Stripe, Twilio, PagerDuty, Datadog, Discord, Slack

Analysis and Research The Analysis & Research blog publishes in-depth articles on cloud outage history, infrastructure reliability, BGP routing failures, DNS attack patterns, and the economics of downtime. Featured articles include:

The Biggest Cloud Outages in History

AWS Outage History: Complete Timeline

The 10 Largest Internet Outages Ever Recorded

BGP Routing Failures: How One Misconfiguration Takes Down the Internet

AI API Reliability Comparison: OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Google

The Real Cost of Downtime: Cloud Outage Economics

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