- https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/03/apple-investigates-app-store...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/23/app-store-apple-music-a...
- https://www.the-sun.com/tech/4944089/apple-maps-down-icloud-...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/08/itunes-and-app-stores-s...
- https://www.macrumors.com/2018/03/27/app-store-outage/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/02/apple-reporting-outages-for-...
- https://www.cnbc.com/2015/03/11/some-apple-services-sufferin...
A sync issue in drive would barely be noticed.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applepayontheweb/d...
I routinely have email issues, file transfer issues (to icloud) and issues accessing their binary notarisation service.
The only thing that works routinely well is Apple Pay, however I think that it's refreshing a key lazily in the background and does not actually need a network connection to work. Good design at least.
So when I saw that they're having an outage, I thought. "All at once this time I guess".
I'll be really open here and say that I applied for an SRE job there out of hatred because whoever is in charge of SRE/Infrastructure Operations at Apple is doing a terrible job (or has terrible circumstances).
Regardless, these kinds of things tend to be somewhat regional. I’m based in Sweden.
2603 points by mattsolle on Nov 12, 2020 | 1292 comments
> I am currently unable to work because macOS sends hashes of every opened executable to some server of theirs and [it's down]
https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/25/23041217/apple-app-store-...
But indeed it's rare.
If you live in a region where they operate their own data centers, you will be running on Apple data centers. If not, you're running on a mix of Google Cloud and AWS (IIRC). They used to use Azure as well, but I think that's no longer the case.
In any case, your data is encrypted (by Apple) before being uploaded to Google or AWS, and only Apple has that key. Whatever E2EE encryption you use will be applied on top of that.
I live near the Danish Apple data center, and pretty much all my iCloud traffic goes there, with a small fraction (<10%) going to Stockholm, which has both AWS and Google data centers, so I assume they're using both for geographical redundancy (erasure coding)
It gets a bit more fuzzy once you start moving into Movies/Music/TV/Billing/whatever as well as their backend services for the store and monitoring.
2. A lot of their services have less criticality (and it's not a ding at them - it's often very explicit design choice).
3. App store having hiccups or iCloud backups being delayed it's not something that will usually gather enough attention of media.
- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe
- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure
- imessage: enough said
- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)
any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.
Well, that’s because…they’re not text messages.
For SMS, no not a central server for all carriers. When SMS service originally launched it wasn’t even cross-carrier.
MMS acts like a mailserver at each carrier, sends a push notification and your device has like a day to download full message.
For RCS it’s supposed to be federated but carriers gave up and it’s now centralized through Google Jibe.
Guess this explains it.
Does Apple internally do something like COE's like Amazon?