On January 21, 2025, Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud suffered a severe outage, characterized as a 'hard down,' which began at 15:30 UTC and disrupted essential services for millions of developers. The outage stemmed from a saturated database issue and significantly affected core functionalities such as Git operations, website access, and CI/CD pipelines. While Atlassian managed to resolve the problem by 18:02 UTC, ongoing repercussions continued to impact dependent services. This incident underscored the consequences of version control disruptions and the necessity for robust contingency planning in modern cloud environments.
The outage affected not just code access but also authentication systems, webhook deliveries, and CI/CD pipelines, showing the essential nature of reliable source control.
The cascading effects of Bitbucket’s disruption on dependent services like Microsoft’s Visual Studio App Center illustrate the interconnectedness of modern development workflows.
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