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On July 24, 2026, AWS lost connectivity between the us-west-2 (Oregon) region and the Seattle Metro. The initial impact window was 20 minutes for most and 1 hour 17 minutes for a few customers using AWS Direct Connect through EqSe2, Westin Building Exchange, Seattle. Any traffic that both started and ended inside the region kept working, whereas anything crossing the region boundary saw timeouts and errors. This included the AWS Management Console for some customers.

Sites often try to record information about visitors, which is why you’re often asked if you accept the use of cookies. When users want to remove the information collected, they clear the cache of their browsers. What many people don’t realize, though, is information is also stored in the domain name server (DNS) cache. This guide will explain in more detail what the cache is, how it’s used, and why it’s important to sometimes flush the DNS server cache.

Java is a common development language in part because of how well it works for programming tasks involving objects. Because so many organizations rely on Java applications for business-critical functions, providing adequate resources for these apps is essential. Running Java applications on Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) rather than on physical hardware can increase an organization’s computing power without the overhead expenses of additional hardware.

On the morning of July 24, 2026, a large slice of the internet blinked out at once. An AWS outage centered on the US-West-2 region in Oregon rippled outward and took DoorDash, Reddit, Hulu, Apple Pay, Snapchat, Fortnite, and the PlayStation Network offline for millions of users. If your team runs anything on Amazon Web Services, this is the incident to study, because the hard part was never fixing AWS. The hard part was AWS outage incident response.

Every new signup posts a message to our Slack. The format is dull and reliable: Overnight this week one arrived like this: That trailing nothing was the entire incident. No error logs, no alerts. A returning user had signed up, our signup service had attached them to a tenant we deprovisioned back in December, and the only symptom in the whole company was a Slack message that ran out of words.

We’re excited to add Rise Vision to StatusGator’s growing Digital Signage integration category. If your organization uses Rise Vision to power displays in offices, campuses, or shared spaces, you can now add a live StatusGator board to any screen. Show vendor outages, scheduled maintenance, and service health in real time so everyone stays informed without needing to check dashboards or notifications.

We’re excited to introduce our first Digital Signage integration with OptiSigns. You can now display your StatusGator board on TVs and digital signage screens, giving everyone in your office real-time visibility into vendor outages, maintenance events, and service health. The display updates automatically whenever monitored services change, helping teams stay informed without opening another app.

On July 23, 2026, Azure users around the world began hitting gateway timeouts, DNS failures, and unreachable virtual machines well before Microsoft posted anything on its status page. The first reports reached StatusGator at 15:06 UTC. By 15:28 UTC, StatusGator had sent an Early Warning Signal to subscribers. Microsoft did not acknowledge the incident until 16:29 UTC.