Overview
Bitbucket is experiencing a critical service outage affecting their cloud infrastructure, impacting 28 million repositories and over 10 million registered users. The outage stems from a saturated database system affecting all core operations including Git operations, authentication, and CI/CD pipelines.## Whom it may concern* Development teams using Bitbucket Cloud* DevOps engineers managing CI/CD pipelines* Software project managers relying on Atlassian integration* Enterprise IT administrators## Key Findings1. Complete disruption of Git operations affecting both HTTPS and SSH access2. Authentication and user management systems offline3. Atlassian actively investigating database saturation issues4. API services, webhooks, and pipeline operations non-functional## Risk Analysis* Business Impact: High - Development workflow disruption - Code deployment delays - No reported data loss* Probability of Extended Outage: Medium - Database saturation indicates potential scaling issues - Historical recovery time: 2-4 hours## Action Items* Immediate Actions: - Configure local Git mirrors for critical repositories - Document affected CI/CD pipelines - Implement temporary workflow adjustments* Long-term Recommendations: - Deploy multi-region Git backup solutions - Establish failover procedures for critical development workflows - Review and update disaster recovery plans - Consider implementing distributed VCS redundancy
