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Everything is down. How can this happen? Many of these services are unrelated, like even the brand-new Codespaces and Copilot are completely down. Do they all have a single point of failure? (Presumably the git server)

DNS. It's always DNS

When in doubt, and the outage is widespread it's either DNS or BGP, most likely DNS. My money is also on DNS in this case.

I suspect you'd lose that money. Many of the recent GitHub outages were caused by database issues. Examples: https://github.blog/2023-05-03-github-availability-report-ap.... In fact last march they specifically mentioned “Database stability”: https://github.blog/2022-04-06-github-availability-report-ma...

It's not DNS

There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

DNS, BGP, PKI, probably other TLAs.

Yeah but they probably all share DNS or something related to networking

My bet is on cache servers having a bad release

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