On this week’s episode, I am joined by Deepak Ravi from our Dublin technical sales engineering team to discuss a recent outage at Garmin. Garmin confirmed that it was a victim of a ransomware attack, which took down several of its services including its website functions, customer support, customer facing applications, and company communications. In this episode, we walk through what we observed in the ThousandEyes platform during the time of the attack, and what the impacts were on users attempting to access Garmin services.We’re also joined by ThousandEyes’ CISO, Alexander Anoufriev, to talk about what ransomware attacks are, how they manifest and how organizations can protect themselves against future attacks.

On this week’s episode, we cover a couple of significant application-layer outages at Github and WhatsApp that occurred over the past week. Then, Archana and I do a deep-dive into a network-related outage at Cloudflare that affected the availability of its popular DNS service for approximately 30 minutes. We’ll share what we saw through our vantage points in the ThousandEyes platform, and you can read Cloudflare’s full explanation of the incident on their blog/

On this week’s episode, we cover a recent move by the government of India to ban many Chinese-owned applications, including TikTok, which reportedly has more than 600,000,000 downloads in India. We also talk through a two-hour-long outage at Google Cloud Platform that affected multiple of its availability zones within a single region—highlighting that availability zones may be architected differently between providers—and briefly cover outages at Slack and Comcast, too. After our review of this week’s highlights, I sat down with Atif Khan, CTO of Alkira and former co-founder of Viptela, to talk enterprise cloud strategy.

This week’s episode is brought to you by the letter “O” for outages — in particular, there were a number of broadband providers, globally, that suffered localized outages this past week. After we run down our top headlines, including a satellite provider rolling out managed SD-WAN, we take a look at outages in Comcast and AT&T’s networks. Make sure you join us next week to hear from Atif Khan, CTO at Alkira, as we talk about multi-cloud networking.

This is the Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. On this week’s episode, we cover a widespread T-Mobile outage that took down its cellular network for several hours and elicited a rare condemnation from the FCC. The culprit, according to the carrier, was a fiber cut—highlighting the need for redundancy and resiliency in the nation’s cellular networks. We also cover an issue with What’s App’s privacy settings that sent users scrambling to Twitter, as well as a recent move by Russia to “un-ban” the messenger app, Telegram. Then, stay tuned as we go one-on-one with Jason Black, the Head of Global Network Infrastructure at Uber Technologies, to discuss how Uber approaches its cloud architecture.

On this week’s episode, we discuss a recent BGP-related outage at a major public cloud provider, as well as a recent announcement that Cogent Networks has rolled out RPKI in an effort to strengthen its BGP route security. We’re also joined by Kemal Sanjta, principal engineer on our customer success team and our resident expert on Internet routing and security, to chat about these events. Catch this week’s episode here to dive into BGP with us.

On this week’s episode of the Internet Report, I’m joined by my colleague, Michael Batchelder (aka Binky), to discuss a DNS-related service disruption that affected users trying to access Amazon.com. We also talk about a recently discovered DNS vulnerability that could leave DNS providers susceptible to DNS amplification DDoS attacks. If you’re curious about what went wrong with Amazon’s service last week and want to know more about the role of DNS and why it’s so important, don’t miss this episode.

Welcome back to the Internet Report! On this week’s episode, we cover our usual check-up of ISPs, cloud and collaboration app outages, and discuss several major middle-of-the-night outages that affected services from providers such as Google and Virgin Media. We’re also joined by TeleGeography’s Alan Mauldin to discuss submarine cables, terrestrial networks, international Internet infrastructure and more.

Never a dull minute on the Internet! In today’s episode, Archana and I dove into a YouTube service disruption and an (unrelated!) Google network issue in India. We also discussed Slack’s explanation of their service disruption last week, and even talked through a case out of France where an education site experienced performance issues in lock step with time-of-day usage

On this week’s episode of The Internet Report, Archana and I cover some newsworthy updates that we’ve seen over the past week. We discuss a notable Facebook SDK outage that had ripple effects on other popular services that leverage its log-in functionality, including Spotify and Tik Tok. We also discuss a blog from AWS sharing their thoughts on the JEDI contract.

We’re also joined by Arash Molavi, the lead Internet researcher here at ThousandEyes. Arash shares his insight into outages we’re seeing, discusses what constitutes an outage, and why loss, latency and jitter can impact end-user experience in various ways depending on the context. Last, we cover our usual availability check of ISP, public cloud, and collaboration app provider networks.