Issues at the Amsterdam Internet Exchange

Today starting at 18:08 UTC AMS-IX (the Amsterdam Internet Exchange), experienced a platform incident that impacted some traffic between Total Uptime and various providers in Europe. The AMS-IX has acknowledged this issue and has stated that it is platform-wide affecting all SLX switches with LACP interfaces causing them to flap.

To mitigate the impact of this event and their ongoing investigation, we have shifted all traffic away from the exchange to alternate providers until such time as we have assurance that the issue has been resolved. The AMS-IX carries a peak of 11 Tbps of traffic in Europe, so this is most likely affecting other providers in a significant way as well.

This is a minor incident since it is no longer customer impacting as of the time of this writing. We will update here as further information becomes available.