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Microsoft Azure’s $75B revenue boost is in the news amid outages hitting UK Parliament, Alaska Airlines, and AWS, showing cloud chaos is real.

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Alaska Airlines IT Outage Continues

Alaska Airlines experienced a significant IT outage on October 29, causing flight cancellations and delays. The airline has since engaged external experts to assess and improve its systems, following a previous outage in July. Hawaiian Airlines flights remain unaffected, but thousands face travel disruptions.

US Tech Exports to China Under Scrutiny

U.S. lawmakers are urging the Supreme Court to allow a lawsuit against Cisco over alleged complicity in China's human rights abuses. Despite bipartisan efforts, U.S. policies have historically enabled tech sales to Chinese surveillance agencies, raising concerns about profit-driven complicity and national security.

Cloudflare Outage Disrupts Internet

On Tuesday, November 18, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a major internal service degradation that caused widespread outages affecting websites like X, ChatGPT, Spotify, and others globally. The issue stemmed from an internal file doubling in size due to a database permission change, disrupting Cloudflare's bot management system and causing errors across its network. Recovery took several hours.