SRE News
Weekly SRE news for operators — major outages and status events, public postmortems, and the observability and on-call tooling changes that move time-to-detect.
About SRE News
Site reliability is judgment under uncertainty, and the news that shapes it is rarely a launch — it's an outage, a postmortem, or a quiet change to a thing you depend on. On Call Brief tracks the reliability stories an SRE actually cares about: major provider outages and status-page events, public incident write-ups worth stealing from, and the observability and on-call tooling changes that move the needle on time-to-detect.
Each brief below collects that week's reliability-relevant news, summarized for the person who owns the SLO. Fewer think-pieces, more 'here's what broke and what the postmortem taught us.'
SRE in recent briefs
On Call Brief – Week of July 5–11, 2026
JadePuffer Demonstrates How AI Agents Can Automate Ransomware Attack; Microsoft, Google and Cloudflare just made 2029 the new quantum deadline; Cloudflare: 2 service incidents (Issues with…
On Call Brief – Week of June 28 – July 4, 2026
Hijacked npm and Go Packages Use VS Code Tasks to Deploy Python Infostealer; Apple Fixes WebKit Flaws in iOS and macOS, With Help From AI Tools;…
On Call Brief – Week of June 21–27, 2026
I discovered a large-scale malware distribution on GitHub; Rokarolla Android Banking Trojan Turns Smartphones Into Weapons Against Users; MSG Breach: Knicks Take the NBA Championship, ShinyHunters…
On Call Brief – Week of June 14–20, 2026
ServiceNow Fixes Flaw That Could Lead to Unauthorized Access to Instances; ShinyHunters Secret to Success: Breaking the Trust Barrier; GitHub Removes PAT Requirement for Agentic Workflows…
On Call Brief – Week of June 7–13, 2026
Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack; A postmortem of our May 7, 2026 outage; Holy git! Microsoft code-sharing site suffers downtime, despite…
On Call Brief – Week of May 31 – June 6, 2026
The 28-Hour Meltdown: What Happened When AWS US-EAST-1 Overheated; Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account; AWS Organizations emits CloudTrail events for account membership changes - Only…
On Call Brief – Week of May 24–30, 2026
DevOps'ish 310: The Breaches Are Coming From Inside the Extension Store; The War Between Wars: How an IRGC Front Runs Destructive OT and IT Attacks Under…
On Call Brief – Week of May 17–23, 2026
CISA Credentials, Sensitive Data Exposed in GitHub Repository; GitHub Breach Tied to Malicious VS Code Extension Exposes Thousands of Internal Repositories; Researcher says Microsoft secretly built…
On Call Brief – Week of May 10–16, 2026
EdTech Firm Instructure Pays Ransom as U.S. House Starts Investigation; Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers; Cloudflare: 12 Scheduled Maintenance Windows (Network Performance Issues, Los Angeles,…
On Call Brief – Week of May 3–9, 2026
How a Cursor AI agent wiped PocketOS’s production database in under 10 seconds; When DNSSEC goes wrong: how we responded to the .de TLD outage; Argo…
On Call Brief – Week of April 26 – May 2, 2026
Microsoft Outlook for iOS still down and out for many after 'service change'; GitHub Faces Scaling Issues as AI Development Surges; China-Backed Groups Are Using Massive…
On Call Brief – Week of April 19–25, 2026
Everyone Wants Servers And Nobody Wants Servers; ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway migration on CNCF internal services cluster; Cloudflare: 8 Scheduled Maintenance Windows (Sydney, Salt Lake City,…
On Call Brief – Week of April 12–18, 2026
A guide to the breaking changes in GitLab 19.0; 76 The Cost of Assumptions ⚡; Ashby taught us we have to fight fire with fire
On Call Brief – Week of April 5–11, 2026
GitHub availability report: March 2026; Another One Bites the Dust: What the CDKTF Deprecation Means for You; Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack
On Call Brief – Week of March 29 – April 4, 2026
Trivy Supply Chain Attack Hits Docker Images in TeamPCP Campaign; Building SRE Error Budgets for AI/ML Workloads: A Practical Framework; LAX (Los Angeles) on 2026-03-30
On Call Brief – Week of March 22–28, 2026
Another One Bites the Dust: What the CDKTF Deprecation Means for You; Windows Server 2025 SMB SID hardening is beachballing legacy clients; DevOps'ish 301: Super Micro…
On Call Brief – Week of March 15–21, 2026
Major Breach — McKinsey's Lilli AI system compromised in under two hours, exposing millions of confidential client; Perplexity's Personal Computer system and Mistral's zero-exposure training address…
On Call Brief – Week of March 8–14, 2026
Policy in Bedrock AgentCore is now GA; Accelerate Lambda durable functions development with new Kiro power - AWS; 👀 Claude Code now runs while you sleep
On Call Brief – Week of March 1–7, 2026
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #460: Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its Own Roast; What Google Cloud announced in AI this month; What’s new with Google…
On Call Brief – Week of February 15–21, 2026
[Last Week in AWS] Issue #460: Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its Own Roast; [Last Week in AWS] Issue #460: Bedrock Throttling Guide: AWS Publishes Its…
On Call Brief – Week of February 8–14, 2026
Signal Outage [Ongoing]; Hetzner Outage; Privilege Escalation in Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS JDBC Wrapper, AWS Go Wrapper, AWS NodeJS Wrapper, AWS Python Wrapper, AWS PGSQL ODBC…
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Frequently asked questions
What does SRE News cover?
The reliability stories an SRE actually cares about: major provider outages and status-page events, public incident write-ups worth stealing from, and the observability and on-call tooling changes that move the needle on time-to-detect.
Who is it for?
The person who owns the SLO — fewer think-pieces, more "here's what broke and what the postmortem taught us."
How often is it updated?
Weekly. Each brief covering reliability topics is added to this hub automatically.
Is there a podcast version?
Yes — Ship It Weekly's SRE hub, linked from this page, is the audio companion with practitioner conversations on SLOs, error budgets, and on-call.
How do I get it by email?
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