Roger Fingas
A Tuesday iCloud outage is preventing some people from accessing services like calendars or mail, or even logging into iCloud in the first place, according to numerous complaints on Twitter and received by AppleInsider.
The problem is spread worldwide, affecting people in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, and possibly other regions. Issues are believed to have begun shortly before 11:30 a.m. Eastern time.
Some users are already reporting services being restored, but in other cases, complaints are persisting.
Trouble with iTunes began around the same time. Apple's official System Status tracker is indicating problems with numerous other online services, such as Find My iPhone, Game Center, Photos, and Back to My Mac.
iCloud has witnessed a number of major outages since the network launched in 2011. The last one hit on May 20, and lasted into the following day, taking down many of the same services that went offline on Tuesday.
Update: The System Status page indicates that all services are back online as of noon Eastern.
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Got hit by the outage this morning, but services appear to be coming back online, and status page now showing restoration of ?PAY, Siri, and more:
You should see the whining by trolls over this outage at 9to5Mac, they seem to have quickly forgotten all the MASSIVE, EXTENDED outages of Microsoft Azure / Office 365 recently, that shines iCloud's uptime in a much better light!
All up now.
A quick search (Google) shows that the Apple iCloud outages happen at least once a month.
Not sure how serious they have been or how they compare to other services.
Cherchez la Samsung.
Not sure how serious they have been or how they compare to other services.
They need to tell you how many users were affected. Microsoft gives a percent (<0.1% or 1%), for example, for their enterprise services. Google and Microsoft's scale-out services are designed for more frequent, contained failures, affecting a small number of users. Apple seems to be doing things the old way, with large failures.