Reported sabotage of fiber-optic cables belonging to both the Ministry of Communications and Earthlink in Basra, Iraq led to a 2-hour outage between 05:30-07:30 today (08:30-10:30 local).
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The Amazon Web Services region in #Bahrain appears to be offline after being damaged again in another Iranian strike.
Traffic to me-south-1 disappeared ~01:00 UTC on April 1, with connection failures increasing significantly.
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Iran has been effectively disconnected from the global Internet for four full weeks now, as the shutdown reaches its 28th day. DNS traffic remains near zero, and Web traffic from the country remains extremely minimal, with allowlists limiting access.
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The #Internet shutdown in #Iran is now in its 26th day, and the country remains essentially cut off from the global Internet. Traffic volumes remain extremely low, severely limiting communication with the outside world.
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UK #Internet provider TalkTalk experienced a service disruption between ~07:00-08:15 UTC today.
While Web traffic from the network dropped as much as 69%, 1.1.1.1 resolver traffic was up slightly, as some users suggested changing DNS servers resolved their connectivity issues.
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Issues at a power plant & damage to an underground cable have disrupted Internet connectivity across the US Virgin Islands. St. Thomas is seeing a 66% traffic drop, and St. Croix a 56% drop, while VI Powernet is totally offline.
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The issues are also visible in a significant drop in traffic from the Amazon Web Services ASN (AS16509) in Bahrain, dropping >80% after the disruption began.
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After power issues impacted service earlier this month, the AWS me-south-1 region in #Bahrain is again experiencing issues, reportedly due to drone activity.
Error rates, connection failures, and response times have all increased, starting ~22:30 on March 23.
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During March, #Cuba has experienced three #Internet disruptions due to widespread power outages, clearly visible in a traffic graph. It is interesting to observe that traffic has not recovered to the levels seen in February after each power restoration.
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Although Ministerio de Energía y Minas Cuba reports ongoing restoration of electrical services, #Cuba continues to suffer from a 2nd wide-scale power outage in under a week. #Internet traffic from the island has dropped as much as 77% compared to the previous week.
After 21 days, the #Internet shutdown in #Iran remains in place, with the country mostly offline during Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Only two brief traffic spikes appeared during that period from AS58224 (TCI). HTTP, DNS, and overall traffic remain near zero.
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Another similar event was observed today between 19:15 - 19:50 UTC (22:45 - 23:20 local time). Once again, traffic from AS58224 (TCI) in #Iran saw a massive spike, growing 5-6000x over a 30-minute period.
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Regular status updates from the Cuban Electric Union and the Ministry of Energy and Mines tracked the restoration of electrical service across Cuba. As of 00:00 UTC March 18, #Internet traffic from the island returned to expected levels, suggesting that power had largely been restored.
The #Internet shutdown put into place after the presidential election in the Republic of Congo appears to have ended. Traffic started to recover at 17:20 UTC, after a 2.5 days outage. Three final IPv4 prefixes began getting announced again at that time as well, after an initial recovery on Monday.
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While the power outage caused #Internet traffic to drop, routing was unaffected. This suggests that ISP infrastructure has remained online, while end users have largely been unable to access the Internet.
The reannouncement of IPv4 address space across multiple providers 24 hours later coincides with a nominal increase in traffic, which appears to be driven largely by Congo Telecom. However, overall traffic remains well below pre-shutdown levels.
According to the Cuban Electric Union, "A total disconnection of the National Electric Power System has occurred." At 17:35 UTC, #Internet traffic from #Cuba fell significantly, dropping 65% almost immediately.
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Now into its third week, the #Internet shutdown in #Iran remains in place, and the country remains almost completely offline. HTTP, DNS, and total traffic from the country continue to be at near-zero levels.
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Elections are underway in the Republic of Congo, and the government appears to have shut down the #Internet, as they did during 2016 and 2021 elections. Traffic disappeared at 05:30 UTC (06:30 local).
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Unusual event observed on AS58224 (TCI) in #Iran today. ~15:00 UTC, they briefly withdrew 74% of announced IPv4 space. After recovering, #Internet traffic from the network skyrocketed.
~15:30, it briefly withdrew all announced IPv4 space. After recovery, traffic again returned to near-zero.
The #Internet shutdown in #Iran has now been in place for over 10 days, with the country effectively cut off from the global Internet. Traffic from the country remains well below 1% of pre-shutdown levels.
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The latest #Internet shutdown in #Iran has now entered its 7th day. Traffic remains well under 1% of previous levels.
The distribution of remaining traffic by ASN has shifted significantly since the shutdown was implemented.
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A power outage has left the western part of #Cuba in the dark resulting in #Internet traffic from the island dropping by nearly half staring around 1700 UTC (1200 local) time. Traffic from Havana also dropped significantly.
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