Tim Blair

Incident report: GOV.UK outages

Tim Blair and Graham Pengelly, 8 January 2018 - Incident reports

This post is about two severity 1 incidents caused by problems with our third-party suppliers, and how they were resolved. The incidents affected the availability of GOV.UK.

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