Curious then as to why the incident coincided with similar issues with Anthropic and xAI.

Actually, nevermind... this looks more like Anthropic and xAI coincided due to shared xAI infra (6:23am and 6:30am), and OpenAI's issue was more likely then a coincidence (7:43am).

Thank you. This should be pinned or something.

xAI mentioned a Memphis outage, which is where Anthropic was leasing capacity on Colossus 1. I do think this is the explanation.

Did you negotiate extra hard for the 'Incident Commander' title? I'm a bit jealous to be honest.

It's actually a standard term for the person who plays this role during incident response https://www.pagerduty.com/resources/incident-management-resp...

Ha. It's a role/title for the lifetime of the incident -- it's useful to have someone to keep things moving, keep track of workstreams, and to know who the decision-maker is, especially for bigger incidents. I'm just a SWE who works on infrastructure.

Hopefully you get a decked out command center too.

Note: Incident Command is almost certain an allusion (or implementation) of the Incident Command System [1]

It is a common system in all kinds of emergency response scenarios, including local emergency services (fire/police/ambulance) and it scales all the way to massive disasters.

It is especially useful to clarify command structures when multiple response entities need to coordinate. That is true even within organizations like public companies, where the reporting structures may be distinct.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incident_Command_System

It’s a standard term for a role during an incident.

Straight from the turkey's beak.

Shouldn't Astra be the Incident Commander?

Secretly, they are.

At the same time the outages happened I noticed cloudflare also had reported issues with HTTP/3 and WARP. Related?