Centurylink Outage, is human the cause of the outage? no known time for resolution

Centurylink Internet Network is down.

Where are your five nines now? CenturyLink’s nationwide outage affects millions

by Stacey Higginbotham

2 HOURS AGO

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If you’re one of CenturyLink’s 5.8 million broadband subscribers, you’re probably fuming because your service is out. Such nationwide outages are rare, but that doesn’t make it any less painful for customers.

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Most cloud outages are caused by human errors, and there is a good chance that CenturyLink's outage is also caused by human errors in the ability to detect the problem, identify the source of the problem, and possibly taking the wrong action to fix the problem.  we'll see what the postmortem reveals as the events that caused the outage.