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StatusGator has been monitoring the world’s cloud services for more than 10 years now. We’ve seen outages, big and small, affect companies of all sizes for more than a decade. Yet as we close out 2025, it feels like the last 12 months brought us some of the biggest outages in the history of the internet. In fact, by our data, this is true! Never before in history have so many huge outages taken down so much of the internet, in such a short time.

This updated analysis is based on StatusGator outage data collected from January 1 to December 9, 2025. We decided to review our AWS analysis of outages in 2022 due to several new AWS incidents, especially another widely discussed AWS outage in us-east-1 (N. Virginia) that occurred on October 20, 2025. We’ve expanded the report with fresh 2025 regional data as well as a new breakdown of affected AWS services.

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act places accountability on how organizations collect, process, and store personal data to help organizations stay steps ahead of threat actors. Forrester’s CIO roadmap highlights a clear shift: compliance is no longer limited to policies and consent workflows. CIOs must extend governance deeper into the technology stack, including infrastructure that directly impacts data security.

Present IT structure requires flexibility, speed, and accessibility. This year marked a significant milestone for Site24x7 as we launched our enhanced mobile application, transforming how IT teams manage their infrastructure while on the go. Whether you're responding to critical alerts during your commute or reviewing performance metrics between meetings, Site24x7's mobile app puts its entire suite of monitoring capabilities directly in your hands.

Since its inception, the Site24x7 platform has been the central pillar of monitoring. In 2025, it evolved beyond monitoring to become a comprehensive decision-making layer for modern IT operations. With a strong focus on usability, intelligence, governance, and scalability, this year’s enhancements were designed to help teams see clearly, act decisively, and plan confidently for the future.

When systems fail, the instinct to find someone to blame runs deep. But what if assigning fault actually makes your systems less reliable? A blameless postmortem culture transforms how teams learn from incidents, creating stronger systems and more effective incident response processes.

Every year, Grafana dashboards surface in new corners of the world. And this year, they even reached beyond this world—helping one team land on the moon and another monitor the planet’s health with orbiting satellites. Meanwhile, back here on Earth, the community used Grafana to track everything from wind turbines and wastewater to March Madness and Taylor Swift’s worldwide tour. Here’s a look back at some of the most memorable Grafana community dashboards of 2025.

If you’re an SRE, platform engineer, or on-call responder, you don’t need another article explaining incident pain. You feel it every time your phone lights up in the middle of the night. You already know the pattern: You’ve invested in runbooks, automation, observability, and “best practices,” yet incident response still feels like firefighting. Now imagine the same midnight page, but with AI SRE in place: What once took hours is now finished in a couple of minutes.