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Also at The Internet Report podcast, catch the Outage Deep Dive series for special coverage of major Internet outages. The hosts go under the hood to determine what happened, covering key lessons and ways IT teams can minimize downtime in similar situations.

Live from #CiscoLiveEMEA, we discuss the Feb. 7 Microsoft Outlook outage to understand how the event unfolded, why it may have played out the way it did, and what you can learn from this outage event.

To dive deeper, check out the links below:

• Explore the outage in the ThousandEyes platform (NO LOGIN REQUIRED)
• Microsoft Outlook Outage Analysis Blog (Feb. 7)
• Microsoft Outage Analysis Blog (Jan. 25)

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In this episode, we cover the latest internet trends and unpack important takeaways from the recent FAA, Fastly, and Microsoft outages. We also discuss how several early 2023 outages and disruptions reinforced the need for application monitoring and testing to counter, or at least anticipate the effect of, anomalous conditions on certain routes.

00:00 Intro
1:32 Outage Trends: Week of Jan. 30
7:07 FAA Outage (Jan. 11)
11:04 Fastly Outage (Jan. 19)
15:31 Microsoft 365 Outage (Jan. 17)
19:52 Microsoft Outage (Jan. 25)
28:40 Get in Touch

To learn more, check out the links below:

• Follow the Fastly and Microsoft outages in the ThousandEyes platform (NO LOGIN REQUIRED)
• Internet Report: Pulse Update Blog (Week of Jan. 30, 2023)
• Microsoft Outage Analysis (Jan. 25)
• Podcast: Understanding the Microsoft Outage: Why Were Azure, Microsoft Teams, & Outlook Down?

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At around 7:05 a.m. UTC on January 25, 2023, Microsoft started experiencing service related issues. At the same time, ThousandEyes observed BGP withdrawals and a significant number of route changes that resulted in a high amount of packet loss, ultimately affecting various services like Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and others. 

00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Join our co-hosts Angelique Medina, Head of Internet Intelligence, and Kemal Santja, Principal Internet Architect, both from ThousandEyes, as they discuss the January 25, 2023 Microsoft outage. 

00:43 Incident overview as seen in the ThousandEyes platform. Follow along in the ThousandEyes platform *no login required*: https://acimfsmgobnxgdkltxicdesijrowimst.share.thousandeyes.com

10:18 Why would rapid announcement changes cause packet loss at the scale that was observed during this event?

12:35 What should someone make of the length / duration of the event? 

14:28 Why would the change of an IP address on a router cause such a major connectivity disruption? 

23:37 What are some of the lessons you can learn from this event? 

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Starting at ~12:12 UTC on Dec 12, 2022, an ISP in the Democratic Republic of Congo leaked a route belonging to the Quad9 DNS service, causing some traffic, including Verizon US customer traffic, to get routed to Africa for ~90 minutes. High traffic loss was observed throughout the incident which was resolved at ~13:40 UTC. 

00:00 Welcome: This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what’s working and what’s breaking on the Internet—and why. Join our co-hosts Mike Hicks, Principal Solutions Analyst, and Kemal Sanjta, Principal Internet Architect, both from ThousandEyes, as they discuss the December 12th Quad9 BGP route leak. 

00:56 Under the Hood: Reviewing the Quad9 BGP route leak as seen in the ThousandEyes platform. Explore the incident yourself in the ThousandEyes platform at: https://aioiqfxeunngihtwnkphnuzazgloaiju.share.thousandeyes.com/ 

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In this episode Reggie and Lora discuss what life was like in Houston over the last week and how she coped with the extended outages. 

It's Friday and we are hot, fresh, sexy, and cool with this episode, bbs! James bring to discussion the new SciFi Natalie Portman thriller, Annihilation directed by Alex Garland (of Ex Machina fame)... are we sensing a little...Whitewashing?! Double N and Lil J discuss the lack of representation for Asian American woman in film, drafts of manuscripts, Tessa and Gina, and James' love for Natalie Portman. Moving forward to the Korners- James continues the Hollywood trend by discussing the movie, Detroit directed by Kathryn Bigelow, is it FUBU aka For Us By Us? They chat about the 1960s riots- how many there actually were. It will surprise you. In Nnekay's Korner- she wants to give an update on the power outage in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria on September 20th. How many people are still out power, who is in charge of fixing the crisis, and what can we do about it.  

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