Between 2016 and 2023, around a quarter of reported public IT and data center outages happened in the digital services industry. Cloud and internet giants and telecommunication firms followed, with up to 22 percent of the outages. Meanwhile, government and transportation reported the lowest share of public outages.
Publicly reported data center and IT outages worldwide from 2016 to 2023, by industry
among IT and data center managers; only top six outage categories are shown
Supplementary notes
The sourse adds the following inforamtion: "Category 1, negligible, outages and outages in which the root cause was not determined or disclosed are omitted for all years."
The source does not provide the exact date of a survey.
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