Internet Outage Atlas · Shared platforms and front doors

Salesforce Multi-hour Outage

SaaS DNS · May 2021

A DNS-related failure affected Salesforce services and disrupted the large body of business workflows built on top of them.

How it spread

The outage hit as an enterprise dependency problem, not just an app problem.

SaaS platforms inherit the blast radius of their own shared front doors.
The lesson on the record
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