✅ Final Thoughts Friday for 2025-06-13

This week, I spotlight the ongoing relevance of cloud outages and the evolution of status tracking.

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☁️ + 🚨 The story that caught my eye this week was the still newsworthy nature of a cloud scale outage.

Techmeme: Google Cloud suffered an outage on Thursday, affecting many of its customers; Cloudflare, Spotify, Discord, Snapchat, and others experienced service disruptions (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

By Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

Back in the ancient times of 2021, I wrote this piece on the theme of Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards

Fudge Sunday - Cloud in Public: Status Dashboards (2021) by Jay Cuthrell

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