They all rent compute from SpaceXAI
Surely it's a bit more distributed than that, right?
Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
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Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#272The extention on the error link points to a cf-ray and a local designation (ex. YYZ for montreal). This is seems like it is a cloudfare thing. Could this be the same issue they had in the summer around losing the indexing?
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#273Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#274They all rent compute from SpaceXAI
I don't believe OpenAI does
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#275I thrive in these types of challenges. Anyways... According to Claude: "Yes, there is a multi-provider outage happening today. Downdetector is reporting problems affecting OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Cursor, with Grok and Claude reports starting around 9:00 am ET and OpenAI reports following around 10:30 am ET. Zero Hedge On the Anthropic side, users saw a spike in errors starting around 9:40 am EDT across models inclu…
Don't most of those use AWS?
apparently it shows lot of reports for AWS on downdetector ..
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#276Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_effect Edit: Updated per valleyer's suggestion.
"Domino effect" would probably be the more relevant named phenomenon there.
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#277We're back on.
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#278SkyNet is arming..
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#279Think of it like one big distributed system. OpenAI is down, so people migrate to Claude, now this one gets overloaded and goes down, etc. So not a coincidence, one went down first and users migrated causing further DOS. At least that's my guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_effect Edit: Updated per valleyer's suggestion.
This isn’t a thundering herd problem, it’s a cascading failure. (Thundering herd is about a bunch of workers waking up simultaneously)
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#280came back to normal!