Vratislav Holub The popular social network Instagram, which belongs to the Meta company, has recently been experiencing quite frequent outages. These often also concern other networks such as Facebook, Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp. In the case of Instagram specifically, these outages manifest themselves in a variety of ways. While someone can't log into their account at all, another may have trouble loading new posts, sending messages, and the like. In any case, it raises an interesting question. Why is this actually happening? Some apple fans are debating whether Apple can also face the same problem.
Why is Instagram crashing?
Of course, first of all, it would be good to answer the most important question, or why Instagram is struggling with these outages in the first place. Unfortunately, only the Meta company knows the unequivocal answer, which does not share the reasons. At most, the company issues an apologetic statement in which it informs that it is working to resolve the entire problem. Theoretically, there are several errors that can be responsible for outages. That is why it is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to guess what is behind it at any given moment.
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Flying around the world with Apple Are Apple and others at risk of outages?
As we have already mentioned above, at the same time, this opens up a debate about whether Apple is also threatened with similar problems. Many technology companies host their servers on the AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud platforms. Apple is no exception, reportedly relying on the services of all three cloud platforms rather than running its own data centers exclusively. Individual servers, backups and data are then strategically divided so that the Cupertino giant can guarantee the greatest possible security. In addition, last year it was revealed that Apple is the largest corporate customer of the Google Cloud platform.
For many years, Instagram also relied on AWS, or Amazon Web Services, to host the entire social network. Literally everything, from the images themselves to the comments, was stored on Amazon's servers, which Instagram rented for its use. In 2014, however, a relatively fundamental and extremely demanding change came. Only two years after the acquisition of the social network by Facebook, an extremely important migration took place - the then company Facebook (now Meta) decided to migrate data from AWS servers to its own data centers. The whole event received huge media attention. The company managed to move to 20 billion photos without the slightest problem, without users even noticing. Since then, Instagram has been running on its own servers.
So this answers one fundamental question. The company Meta is solely responsible for Instagram's current problems, and therefore Apple, for example, is not at risk of the same outages. On the other hand, nothing is perfect and there can almost always be a breakdown, in which the Cupertino giant is of course no exception.
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Who knows if it's not the way the Meta corporation (Facebook) screwed up the other two services, then it doesn't manage to keep everything running very well.