How Common Are US Outages + Downtime in 2025?

There haven’t been many “dominate the news cycle” outages in recent months.  Downtime incidents that impacted millions in 2024 like the well-publicized outages that have hit AWS, Microsoft, Delta Air Lines/Crowdstrike, Meta, etc. have not been prominent thus far in 2025.

Does that mean outages aren’t happening?   Hardly.  Outages that hit only tens of thousands of people or are brief enough to be minor inconveniences are not newsworthy, but they certainly occur. 

The 2025 Global Network Outage Report is reported weekly by under the direction of Ann Bednarz, an Executive Editor at Network World.  Cisco’s ThousandEyes monitoring service is the source for this data.

How frequent are outages so far in 2025?

As Direct LTx is not a global provider we’ll focus on just the US outages, which typically make up right around half of worldwide outages. 

The two main categories reported are internet service providers (ISPs) and public cloud service provider networks for what are essentially the first two months of the year.   Then in the right hand column we display the total of all US outages, which adds in collaboration app networks, DNS content delivery networks, and security as a service to the ISP and public cloud outages.

After a quiet couple of weeks coming out of the holidays we’re seeing a pattern of suffering just a shade under 200 total outages per week in the US.

The weekly report also highlights the two most notable outages of the week. So far this year those have included Arelion (formerly known as Telia Carrier), AT&T, Cogent, GTT Communications, Hurricane Electric, Internap, Lumen, Neustar, and Verizon Business.  This is hardly a blemish against those providers, as you can expect any large complex network to have some issues over the course of the year. 

Maximizing Your Uptime: Outages happen.  Having a well-designed disaster recovery and business continuity plan helps you guard against damaging downtime for your customers.  For strategic thinking on preparing for uptime interruptions download the Direct LTx executive report Maintaining High Availability: 9 Critical Steps to Take for Disaster Recovery Success by clicking here.