39 udokumentowane zdarzenia

Pełna historia
Globalne awarie Internetu

Od upadku ARPANET w 1980 r. po dzisiejsze przecięcia kabli podmorskich — chronologiczny zapis wydarzeń, które ukształtowały sposób, w jaki budujemy odporne sieci.

Incydenty BGP Awarie DNS Cięcia kabli Awarie chmury Ataki DDoS Przestoje
Przewiń, aby odkryć
2020s
Dec 5, 2025

Cloudflare brief global disruption from configuration error (reported)

≈25 minutes (reported)
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Misconfiguration
Bad config deployment affected request handling; rollback resolved quickly (reported).
"Short-lived outages/errors across many proxied sites."
CDN/Cloud services
Oct 19, 2025

AWS us-east-1 major cascade outage (DynamoDB/EC2) (reported)

≈15 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Global (services depending on us-east-1)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug, Systemic cascade
Prior response claimed DynamoDB DNS/discovery issue cascaded into EC2 control plane disruption; not verified here.
"Large downstream app outages and delayed autoscaling/instance launches (reported)."
Cloud provider
Sep 6, 2025

Red Sea cable cuts (SMW4 & IMEWE) (reported)

Weeks (repairs)
Uderzenie
Middle East, South Asia, East Africa, Europe–Asia transit
Pierwotna przyczyna
Unknown, Possible sabotage, Human error
Multiple cables cut; attribution unclear.
"Regional slowdowns and rerouting/latency increase."
Submarine cables
Jul 24, 2025

Starlink global outage (core software services failure) (reported)

≈2.5 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Global Starlink footprint
Pierwotna przyczyna
Unknown, Software bug (suspected)
Reported failure of internal software services operating the core network (provider statement reported by analysts).
"Connectivity loss for satellite users."
Satellite ISP (LEO)
Forrester Kentik
Jun 12, 2025

Cloudflare outage attributed to Workers KV incident (reported)

≈2.5 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Global (Cloudflare customers)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug, Change error
Prior response claimed Workers KV cascade; not verified here.
"Customer API/control plane disruption; some site/app errors."
CDN/Cloud services Control plane / distributed storage
May 20, 2025

Global routing instability from malformed BGP attribute (Prefix-SID) (reported)

Minutes (reported)
Uderzenie
Global (multi-AS)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug, Misconfiguration
Malformed BGP attribute propagated; certain vendors allegedly crashed/reset sessions.
"Brief reachability issues for some networks; high routing churn."
BGP routing Router software interoperability
Jan 15, 2025

Targeted cable incidents around Taiwan (reported)

Weeks for local restoration (reported)
Uderzenie
Taiwan and offshore islands (reported)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Possible sabotage, Hardware/physical failure
Incidents attributed to vessel activity; intent disputed.
"Local outages and increased geopolitical concern."
Submarine cables
Nov 17, 2024

Baltic Sea subsea cable disruptions (reported sabotage)

Repairs over weeks (reported); immediate impact rerouted
Uderzenie
Northern Europe (Finland, Sweden, Baltics, Germany links)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Unknown, Possible sabotage
Near-simultaneous cable cuts raised suspicion; attribution uncertain.
"Reduced capacity and higher latency; national security concern."
Submarine cables
The Guardian AP News
May 12, 2024

East Africa subsea cable damage (SEACOM & EASSy) (reported)

Weeks (repairs into early June)
Uderzenie
East and Southern Africa
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Hardware/physical failure
Anchor drag / storm-related incident damaged multiple cables.
"Major slowdowns and partial outages; increased latency; business disruption."
Submarine cables
Internet Society Kentik
Feb 9, 2024

Red Sea subsea cable cuts linked to Rubymar (AAE-1 / EIG / SEACOM) (reported)

Weeks (repairs)
Uderzenie
Middle East, South Asia, East Africa, Europe–Asia transit
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Conflict-related incident
Anchor drag from damaged/drifting vessel reportedly severed multiple cables.
"Regional slowdown/outages; rerouting and latency spikes."
Submarine cables
CSIS
Jan 3, 2024

Orange Spain routing registry compromise / BGP disruption

Hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Spain (primarily)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Cyberattack / credential compromise
RIPE registry account compromise enabled route origin record changes causing routing issues.
"Connectivity disruption for ISP customers and hosted services."
BGP routing IRR/RPKI management
APNIC Blog SecurityWeek
Nov 2, 2023

Portland (Flexential) data center power failure impacts Cloudflare & Workday

Hours to ~1 day+ for full restoration (varied by service)
Uderzenie
Global services with dependencies; physical location Portland, OR (USA)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Hardware failure
Power system failure and cascading generator/utility issues caused facility-wide outage.
"Loss of visibility/control for customers; SaaS downtime for enterprises."
Data center/power infrastructure Cloud/CDN control-plane
Cloudflare Cloudflare
Jun 13, 2023

AWS us-east-1 outage (Lambda-related cascading impacts)

≈2 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Global (apps depending on us-east-1)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug
Lambda capacity-management bug triggered at scale, affecting dependent AWS services.
"App outages and degraded performance across multiple brands."
Cloud provider Serverless platform
May 9, 2023

Pakistan mobile internet shutdown (political unrest)

≈3 days (reported)
Uderzenie
Pakistan (nationwide)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Political or regulatory action
Government ordered mobile networks offline; social platforms blocked during unrest.
"Major societal and economic disruption; suppressed information flow."
Government shutdown Mobile data
Internet Society Pulse Al Jazeera
Apr 4, 2023

Virgin Media UK ISP outages (BGP withdrawals/internal failure)

Two major outages (hours each) reported same day
Uderzenie
United Kingdom
Pierwotna przyczyna
Unknown, Routing/control-plane failure (suspected)
Routes withdrawn and traffic dropped at edge; internal failure led to customer disconnects.
"Nationwide consumer/business connectivity disruption."
ISP BGP routing
Feb 2, 2023

Matsu Islands (Taiwan) dual undersea cable cuts

Weeks (reported)
Uderzenie
Matsu Islands (Taiwan)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Hardware/physical failure, Possible sabotage
Two cables severed in early February; attributed to vessel activity (disputed intent).
"Severe local connectivity loss; reliance on microwave/satellite fallback."
Submarine cable
Jan 25, 2023

Microsoft Azure & Microsoft 365 global outage (WAN routing incident)

Several hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Misconfiguration, Change error
Microsoft WAN routing change caused instability/route flaps impacting Azure and M365 services.
"Cloud and productivity suite disruptions affecting organizations worldwide."
Cloud provider WAN routing/BGP
ThousandEyes Practical365
Oct 25, 2022

Sudan protest-related national internet shutdown

≈8 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Sudan (nationwide)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Political or regulatory action
Authorities reduced/disabled connectivity during protests.
"Information suppression and disruption to services."
Government shutdown
Oct 19, 2022

Shetland Islands submarine cable cut (SHEFA-2)

≈14.5 hours (reported)
Uderzenie
Shetland Islands, Scotland (UK)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Hardware/physical failure
Cable severed (often attributed to anchor/fishing activity).
"Local isolation; emergency services needed backups."
Submarine cable
The Guardian Shetland News
Sep 1, 2022

Iran protest-related internet shutdowns (curfews and regional blackouts)

Recurring daily hours + multi-day regional events
Uderzenie
Iran (nationwide and regional)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Political or regulatory action
Authorities restricted/disabled mobile internet and platforms during protests.
"Communication suppression and economic disruption."
Government shutdown Mobile networks
Jul 8, 2022

Rogers Communications nationwide outage (Canada)

≈19–24 hours (major disruption)
Uderzenie
Canada (nationwide)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Misconfiguration
Maintenance change removed a routing filter and triggered cascading routing/control-plane failures.
"Payment disruptions, emergency-call impacts, widespread societal disruption."
ISP/telecom core
ThousandEyes Government of Canada / CRTC
Oct 4, 2021

Facebook/Meta global outage (BGP + DNS reachability)

≈6 hours
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Misconfiguration
Backbone maintenance change withdrew BGP routes; DNS and internal tooling became unreachable, complicating recovery.
"Global disruption of messaging/social communications; business disruptions."
BGP routing DNS Private backbone
Engineering at Meta Cloudflare
2010s
Jun 24, 2019

Verizon BGP route leak impacting Cloudflare (and others)

≈1–2 hours
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Misconfiguration, Filtering failure
Customer route leak propagated through Verizon due to insufficient filtering; misrouting/blackholing ensued.
"Partial unreachability/slowness for many services; routing community alarm."
BGP routing
Cloudflare Cloudflare
Feb 28, 2017

AWS S3 outage (us-east-1) from operator error

≈4 hours
Uderzenie
Global (customers relying on us-east-1)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Operational tooling/controls gap
Incorrect parameter in internal tool took down more S3 subsystems than intended; slow index recovery.
"Major web/app disruptions due to reliance on S3 in a single region."
Cloud provider Storage service
AWS The Guardian
Oct 21, 2016

Dyn DNS DDoS (Mirai botnet)

Intermittent over the day (multiple waves)
Uderzenie
North America, Europe, Global users of affected sites
Pierwotna przyczyna
Cyberattack / DDoS
IoT botnet traffic overwhelmed Dyn’s DNS infrastructure.
"Widespread inability to resolve domains for major services."
DNS DDoS
ThousandEyes KrebsOnSecurity
Jan 27, 2011

Egypt nationwide internet shutdown (Arab Spring)

≈5 days (major blackout)
Uderzenie
Egypt (nationwide)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Political or regulatory action
Government ordered ISPs to disconnect and withdraw routes to suppress protests.
"Severe societal and economic disruption; communications blackout."
Government shutdown BGP withdrawals
Wikipedia (overview) RIPE NCC (related analyses via RIPE Labs/archives)
Apr 8, 2010

China Telecom large-scale route leak/hijack (reported)

≈18 minutes (often reported)
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Misconfiguration, Disputed
Large number of prefixes announced via China Telecom; traffic detoured. Intent disputed.
"Potential traffic detours and risk of interception; user-visible impact unclear."
BGP routing
2000s
Feb 24, 2008

YouTube global outage via Pakistan Telecom BGP hijack

≈2 hours
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Political or regulatory action, Misconfiguration, Upstream filtering failure
Domestic blocking route advertised globally due to upstream propagation and insufficient filtering.
"Global unreachability of YouTube during incident window."
BGP routing Policy-driven filtering leak
Google Research CircleID
Jan 30, 2008

Mediterranean & Gulf submarine cable cuts (Middle East/South Asia disruption)

Days to weeks (repair dependent)
Uderzenie
Middle East, North Africa, South Asia (multi-country)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Hardware/physical failure, Human error, Unknown
Multiple cable faults/cuts; some attributed to anchor drag, some unclear.
"Severe bandwidth reduction and international connectivity degradation."
Submarine cables
RIPE NCC Wikipedia
Dec 26, 2006

Taiwan (Hengchun) earthquake submarine cable breaks

Weeks (full repair reportedly ~49 days)
Uderzenie
East Asia / Asia-Pacific (Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, etc.)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Natural disaster
Undersea earthquake and landslides severed multiple major cables near Taiwan/Luzon Strait.
"Severe international connectivity degradation; high latency due to reroutes."
Submarine cables International backbone
Submarine Networks International Cable Protection Committee (PDF)
Jan 25, 2003

SQL Slammer worm

Hours (peak), with lingering effects over 1–2 days
Uderzenie
Global (notably Asia, North America, Europe)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Cyberattack / malicious code, Software vulnerability
Worm exploited MS SQL Server vulnerability; explosive scanning caused congestion and outages.
"Severe congestion and widespread service disruptions."
Internet Cyber incident / traffic flood
NETSCOUT ASERT WeLiveSecurity (ESET)
1990s
May 19, 1998

Galaxy IV satellite failure

Days to ~1 week (varying by service)
Uderzenie
United States (nationwide), some Canada
Pierwotna przyczyna
Hardware failure
Satellite control failure caused loss of service for pager/broadcast transponders.
"Mass pager outage affecting businesses and emergency communications."
Satellite communications
The Atlantic National Academies
Apr 13, 1998

AT&T frame relay cloud outage

Up to ≈26 hours for some customers
Uderzenie
United States (nationwide corporate WAN customers)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug, Change error
Software upgrade failure and error flooding caused network-wide instability.
"Corporate WAN disconnects; disrupted financial and airline operations (reported)."
Enterprise data network (Frame Relay)
Wired Los Angeles Times
Jul 17, 1997

“.com/.net DNS” outage (Network Solutions zone file error)

≈4 hours
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error
Corrupted/incorrect zone file update disrupted resolution for large numbers of domains.
"Large-scale name resolution failures; widespread site/email disruption."
DNS (TLD name servers)
BYTE (PDF) squid-cache.org
Apr 25, 1997

AS7007 BGP route leak

Hours (variously reported; not precisely captured here)
Uderzenie
Global
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Software bug, Misconfiguration
Misconfigured router and bug leaked more-specific routes and hijacked large portions of routing table.
"Widespread reachability problems due to misrouting/blackholing."
Internet backbone BGP routing
Wikipedia Cloudflare (PDF)
Jan 4, 1991

New York fiber cut disrupts multi-state communications

Hours (same-day restoration reported)
Uderzenie
US Northeast (New York, DC, Boston cited)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Human error, Hardware/physical failure
Accidental severing of a major fiber trunk (construction/backhoe-style incident).
"Call blocking and disruptions to trading/aviation communications (reported)."
Fiber backbone (telecom/data)
Jan 15, 1990

AT&T long-distance network crash

≈9 hours
Uderzenie
United States (nationwide long-distance)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug
Faulty switch software update triggered cascading switch resets and signaling storms.
"Large-scale call failures; business disruption; delayed flights reported."
Telephony (PSTN long-distance) Switching network
Cal Poly (jdalbey) case study The Software Horror Picture Show (Uni Saarland)
1980s
Nov 2, 1988

Morris Worm outbreak

Days (major disruption over multiple days)
Uderzenie
Primarily US academic/military networks, Spillover impacts globally
Pierwotna przyczyna
Cyberattack / malicious code, Software vulnerability, Human error
Self-replicating worm exploited weak passwords and vulnerabilities, saturating systems and networks.
"Severe network congestion and system outages; significant cleanup costs."
Internet (early TCP/IP) Cyber incident
Wikipedia CERT/CC (SEI)
Oct 27, 1980

ARPANET collapse (routing/IMP bug cascade)

≈4 hours
Uderzenie
United States (ARPANET nodes)
Pierwotna przyczyna
Software bug
Status-message propagation and IMP error-handling/garbage-collection bug caused network-wide disruption.
"ARPANET connectivity loss across research sites."
Early Internet (ARPANET) Routing infrastructure
Computer History Museum VICE
2025 Cloudflare brief global disruption from configuration error (reported)

Wzorce w danych

Dziesięciolecia awarii sieci ujawniają powracające motywy awarii Internetu.

Najczęstsza przyczyna
Human error
13 incydentów
Szczytowa dekada
2020s
22 zarejestrowane zdarzenia
Razem udokumentowane
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Poważne incydenty
Przedział czasu
1980 – 2025
45 lat historii

Czego uczy nas historia

Każda poważna awaria pozostawia po sobie lekcje, jak budować bardziej odporne systemy.

Błąd ludzki jest częstym tematem

Od awarii AT&T w 1990 r. po awarię Facebooka w 2021 r. błędne konfiguracje i błędy operacyjne powodują więcej przerw w działaniu niż jakikolwiek inny czynnik. Złożoność nowoczesnych sieci oznacza, że ​​pojedyncza literówka może mieć charakter globalny.

BGP pozostaje piętą achillesową Internetu

Protokół Border Gateway, który kieruje ruchem między sieciami, został zaprojektowany w epoce ukrytego zaufania. Dziesiątki lat później wycieki tras i porwania nadal występują, ponieważ przyjęcie środków bezpieczeństwa takich jak RPKI pozostaje niekompletne.

Infrastruktura fizyczna jest zaskakująco krucha

Kable podmorskie przenoszą 95% danych międzykontynentalnych, a mimo to są podatne na kotwice, trzęsienia ziemi i coraz częściej celowe zakłócenia. Geograficzne wąskie gardła, takie jak Morze Czerwone, pozostają krytycznymi punktami awarii.

Koncentracja stwarza ryzyko systemowe

Kiedy AWS us-east-1 ulega awarii, odczuwa to połowa Internetu. Kiedy Cloudflare ma problem, miliony stron internetowych stają się nieosiągalne. Wzrost wydajności wynikający z centralizacji wiąże się z ponadwymiarowymi trybami awarii.

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