Doomscrollers despair after Oracle hiccup knocks TikTok offline in US

An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.

Big Red reported an issue at 1324 UTC on March 3. It said on its status page: "Customers may be intermittently experiencing connection timeouts, errors, and increased latency when attempting to perform OCI service operations."

The glitch affected the company's US East (Ashburn) region, and as March 3 rolled into March 4, Oracle engineers worked to understand what had happened and how to mitigate it. By 0703 UTC on March 4, the company confirmed that "service health metrics are showing recovery," having identified the root cause at 0044 UTC and rolled out mitigations.

Just another day for the public cloud and another cautionary tale for customers considering whether to throw their lot in ...