Internet Outage Atlas · Platform and software cascades

Zoom Partial Global Outage

Video platform · August 2020

Zoom experienced a broad service disruption during the period when remote work had made video infrastructure a daily dependency.

How it spread

The incident showed how a platform that looks optional can become operationally central very quickly.

Once a platform becomes routine coordination infrastructure, partial outages stop feeling partial.
The lesson on the record
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