Some took place due to technical failures, some by cyber attacks, and some of the governments’ conscious decisions.

So, what were the biggest internet outages that shook the world?

1st 2011 – the internet was taken in Misir.

During the Arab Spring in 2011, the Egyptian government decided to completely close the Internet in order to suppress increasing protests in the country.

Telecommunication companies were directly commanded and country -wide internet access was cut for several days. Google and Twitter started a service called “Speak2tweet” and provided Egyptians to tweet over the phone boundaries. In fact, this event showed how far governments can lead to digital censorship.

2. 2016 – the largest DDOS attack of the world (DYN attack)

On October 21, 2016, one of the largest DDOS (distributed service rejection) attacks in history took place. DYN named DNS provider; Amazon, Twitter, Spotify, Reddit and Netflix caused giants to be out of the online for hours.

Behind this flux was a Botnet named Mirai and was performed using internet contact devices (IoT devices). Who could have predicted that even a smart refrigerator that looks easy to seem could lead to internet interruption?

3. 2008 -Middle East and South Asia hit the cable disaster

In January 2008, two-under-sea internet cables, Sea-Ma-We 4 and Flag, under the Mediterranean Sea, were wasted at once. Although the reason for the interruption is not known exactly, it was probably due to a ship anchor or a technical failure. Conclusion?

Egypt, India, Pakistan and Middle Eastern countries engaged in slow or completely cut internet for days. It was one of the biggest events that showed how critical the submarine cables were for our digital world.

4. 2019 – Fecebook, WhatsApp and Instagram collapsed.

In March 2019; Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram’a access to the world for about 3 hours has been completely cut off. Billions of people could not send messages, could not upload photos, even in a number of countries, even the applications entered on Facebook became unusable.

Facebook, this is a “server configuration error, but many people have announced that many people, the company’s infrastructure weaknesses may cause such a large -scale interruption, he noticed the first time.

5. 2021 – The collapse of Fastly and the Global Media Darkening

In June 2021, Fasttly, the content distribution network (CDN) collapsed for 1 hour due to a incorrectly structured software update.

Amazon, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, using Fastly’s infrastructure, have become inaccessible. Although 95 %of them become online in 49 minutes, the cost of digital platforms is $ 150 million.

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In December 2020, due to a major error in Google’s services, platforms for Youtube, Gmail, Google Docs and Google Drive collapsed worldwide.

People could not reach their e-mails, could not access the content on Youtube, and even smart devices for Google Home stopped working.

The deduction was caused by an update in Google’s infrastructure and was fixed in a few hours. Google lost $ 1.7 million advertising revenue during YouTube deduction.

7. 2024 – Crowdstrike update error and global chaos

In July 2023, a misleading update of cyber security giant Crowdstrike caused a great deduction globally. The error, which led to the collapse and starting cycle in Windows -based systems, affected many parts from airline companies to financial institutions.

British Airways, Lufthansa and American Airlines, large companies had to cancel their flights, banks could not serve without any continuity.

CrowdStrike’s share deed decreased by about 14 %, while Microsoft did not remain without wasting, and after the global interruption, their shares fell by 2.4 %.

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In February 2017, the S3 cloud storage service of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) suffered a major deduction. Since AWS is one of the largest cloud platforms that provides infrastructure to millions of websites worldwide, this deduction has led to huge effects.

Services recognized as Slack, Trello, Quora, Medium did not work for hours, and even Amazon’s e-commerce site experienced a disruption in a number of regions. The cost of the deduction was more than $ 150 million.

As you can see, internet cuts are not only annoying; It also provides many economic, political and social consequences.