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🔴 Turns out 'the cloud' is just someone else's server, and today someone else's server is having an existential crisis. Multiple Atlassian services went dark because their hosting provider forgot to pay the electricity bill (probably). (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ May 08, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Multiple Atlassian services are experiencing issues

// Status page says

May 8 , 02:15 UTC Identified - We have identified that the root cause of the issue is related to an infrastructure outage from our public cloud provider. We are working closely with them to mitigate this issue. We will provide further updates when they become available. May 8 , 01:31 UTC Investigating - We are experiencing issues with multiple Atlassian products. Our tea

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://jira-software.status.atlassian.com/incidents/ryvrzdfwh57v

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