iCloud outage prevents some iMessages from being delivered [u]
Users began contacting AppleInsider Wednesday afternoon to say that some of their iCloud accounts were having issues. Among the services affected were the iCloud website, including mail, as well as iMessages.
Apple's own system status website for iCloud notes that "some" users are affected by the outage, which began at 11:42 Pacific. The site promised that "normal service will be restored ASAP."
Other reports on Wednesday indicated that the iTunes Store also experienced some downtime, while some developers were unable to access Apple's developer portals for iOS and OS X.
The free iCloud service and its paid predecessor, MobileMe, have a history of outages that have affected users over the years. Apple gave no indication just how many users were impacted by Wednesday's particular outage.
Update: All iCloud services have been restored as of 1 p.m. PST according to Apple's iCloud Status Page.
iCloud Status restored. | Source: Apple
17 Comments
This be true - I was having all kinds of problems with the iTunes store but it seems to be fixed as of now.
Oh well... They are still good for a three or four nines SLA.
Much better than BlackBerry.
These things reinforce my belief that "the cloud" is a backup, not to be used to support primary functions in most computing activity.
iwork didn't work either, dropbox did
Only one data center = single point of failure.