Salesforce suffers widespread outage during Dreamforce
Salesforce experienced a major outage on Wednesday, disrupting user access and causing severe delays across multiple regions for about seven and a half hours. The outage, which began at 3:50 a.m. EDT and was resolved by late afternoon, was linked to an internal login system failure rather than third-party infrastructure. Some customers were unable to submit support cases, and scheduled jobs were delayed even after partial restoration.
- Service disruptions began at 3:50 a.m. EDT
- Restoration completed by 2:59 p.m. EDT
- Issue traced to internal login system
- Support case submissions were affected
- Not linked to third-party infrastructure
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