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Microservices in action! Can visit the site, see comments, but can't play videos. Go to twitter, check the latest tweets containing "youtube down", thousands of results coming.

Now I know why I used to download all my favorite videos to USB/SSD!

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Microservices out of action in this case

Select microservices in action! If AWS/GCP/Azure are taking score, then this isn't an outage because DNS resolves a-ok!

What on Earth are you on about

GCP doesn't consider it to be an "outage" if you are able to access a website (e.g "youtube.com") and get a 200 OK response. So, when you go to the status page for the cloud service, it will show green checkmarks, meaning everything is ok.

But, the video you are trying to watch won't load, and will throw a 500 error. But this isn't considered downtime, for them.

Ah I see.

Yeah I've had nothing but grief with those outage detectors. They seem to be really optimistic and not take into account the web of CDN's that contribute to the 'uptime' of a website

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