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US TikTok service restored after cloud 'that doesn't go down' went down

The Register · Dan Robinson · last updated

Winter storm knocks out Oracle datacenter, despite Larry Ellison’s reliability boasts

TikTok has restored US services after winter storms hit an Oracle datacenter — the same infrastructure that Big Red’s founder Larry Ellison previously claimed doesn’t go down.

The American arm of the social media biz says it running normally following a significant outage caused by Winter Storm Fern.

In an update on X, TikTok’s US owners said the bad weather led to a power outage that caused network and storage issues at an Oracle datacenter site, which affected “tens of thousands of servers” that keep TikTok running in the US.

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