Boring answer – all these services are individually down a lot, and the downtimes were bound to sync up. Similar to the pendulum synchronization effect.
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?
#412Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
LOAD BEARING
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#413Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
https://xkcd.com/2347/ Nebraska man retired
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#414Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
Yes, but is it a load-bearing seam?
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#415I'm not sure if this is CF. Cursor, GCP and AWS had some errors. GCP AFAIK can route fully independently of CF. My money would be on a fiber backbone provider (Megaport, Zayo, Lumen).
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
> cascading overload I'd bet more on this. For one none of the coding tools have exponential backoff on retries
They must do, surely? I've been vibe coding my own harness, in particular for use with Ox Alpha. The 429 downtime when Ox Alpha was at the height of popularity quickly gave me a refresher crash course on backoff strategies, like adding jitter to the backoff. At least the major harnesses must have exponential backoff & jitter?
You did this when you ran into an issue with a third party. The developers building this tool, throwing them at their own APIs are significantly less likely to run into a similar issue that may inspire similar action.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#417Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.
But have we found the seams yet though?
If the seams bear too much load, they rip. Whereas pants, they fall down.
I'll be honest with you: this is why we need to take a belt-and-suspenders approach.
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#418Cloudflare, Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud all have a similar uptick in reported errors around 7:30. I suspect an outage on Cloudflare or another load-bearing service cascaded through all the major cloud providers. https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/ https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
my money is on DNS
Re: Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
#419Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a good metaphor and I refuse to let AI ruin it for me.
We need a Samwise "Bear the load!" meme
