Global Akamai DNS Outage 2021-07-22

[mattmathis]

Adverse impact on many large sites: made the news.

Approximate duration: 9:32 AM to 9:47 AM (PT?)
See: https://twitter.com/Akamai/status/1418247523454668803

This probably caused a large up tick in test volume, since so many things were down. It may have caused an uptick in data rates. And might have caused some blackouts for our users.

[mattmathis]

See: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/akamai-outage-was-due-to-dns-bug/
Listed times: from 15:46 to 17:09 UTC

[laiyi-ohlsen]

@mattmathis Should this be in the data-annotations repo?