COJ squabbles with Action SA over call centre outage

COJ squabbles with Action SA over call centre outage

The City of Johannesburg’s call centre was only down ‘temporarily’. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Freepic, Pexels & Wikimedia Commons.) Action SA has lambasted the City of Johannesburg after its call centre went offline, saying this is “deeply concerning and wholly unacceptable” while criticising the city’s financial management and investment in critical infrastructure. The city, in…

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Cloudflare outage takes down websites

Cloudflare outage takes down websites

Cloudfare is a global internet infrastructure and security company. Cloudflare has suffered an outage that caused widespread disruption across the internet, affecting major global platforms, as well as sites and users in South Africa. Cloudflare is a global internet infrastructure and security company that helps websites run faster, stay online and protected from cyber attacks….

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Company blames ‘unusual’ traffic spike before outage

Company blames ‘unusual’ traffic spike before outage

Person’s handing hold an iPhone displaying a Cloudflare Error while attempting to access a webpage, during an outage of the Cloudflare service, Lafayette, California, November 18, 2025. Smith Collection/gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was hit by an outage on Tuesday, knocking several major websites offline for global users. OpenAI’s…

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Calls for cloud diversification after global AWS outage

Calls for cloud diversification after global AWS outage

The global AWS outage showed that online services are heavily dependent on a handful of infrastructure and cloud service providers. (Image source: 123RF, created via GenAI) Analysts and industry players are urging organisations to review their cloud computing environments following the global outage experienced yesterday by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The outage disrupted internet services…

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AWS hit by global outage

AWS hit by global outage

AWS is observing early signs of recovery for some impacted AWS services. Cloud computing platform Amazon Web Services (AWS) has suffered a global outage that is affecting users. Providing updates on the AWS Health Dashboard, the company says it is investigating increased error rates and latencies for multiple AWS services in the US-EAST-1 region. “This…

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