MIT IS&T incident

Cloud hosting outage to MIT server environments

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MIT IS&T experienced a critical incident on January 31, 2026 affecting General and Academic Services and 1 more component, lasting 19h 34m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Jan 31, 2026, 03:24 AM UTC
Resolved
Jan 31, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC
Duration
19h 34m
Detected by Pingoru
Jan 31, 2026, 03:24 AM UTC

Affected components

GeneralAcademic ServicesAdministrative Services

Update timeline

  1. investigating Jan 31, 2026, 03:24 AM UTC

    IS&T is investigating a cloud hosting outage that is affecting our production server environments. Examples of sites that are affected (student.mit.edu, atlas.mit.edu, rolesapp.mit.edu, ist.mit.edu). As we receive more information on recovery, we will update this incident with appropriate information.

  2. monitoring Jan 31, 2026, 05:26 AM UTC

    A fix was implemented for MIT's cloud hosting service. Services are back up and running. IS&T is monitoring the health of all services overnight.

  3. resolved Jan 31, 2026, 10:58 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.