Ep. 41: Akamai Prolexic Outage Analysis + Takeaways

Published: June 28, 2021, 7:44 p.m.

b'This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what\\u2019s working and what\\u2019s breaking on the Internet\\u2014and why. I\\u2019m joined by ThousandEyes\\u2019 BGP expert, Kemal Sanjta, to review the June 16th outage of Prolexic Routed, a DDoS Mitigation Service operated by Akamai. According to a statement from Akamai, the outage was not due to a DDoS attack or system update, but instead a routing table limitation that was inadvertently exceeded.\\n\\nIn this episode, Kemal and I analyzed what happened and how customers of Akamai Prolexic who had automated failover mechanisms in place were able to recover more quickly than those that had to manually switch over to other providers. Watch this episode to learn more about this outage, and how different operational processes resulted in very different service outcomes.'