When submarine cables fail, will spotify.com still work?

Will not work

Domestic direct connections (O)
2

Domestic cloud services (?)
12

Foreign connections (X)
3

When submarine cables fail, can spotify.com still load normally?

Based on the latest test, under a submarine-cable outage scenario spotify.com may “not work.” If international connectivity is cut or blocked, the site may fail to load.

Why might spotify.com “not work” when submarine cables fail?

During testing, when the homepage loaded we found that some content or resources had to be fetched from outside the country. Those resources usually load fine, but when cables are cut or traffic is severely congested those connections can fail—and the site may break along with them.

Does this mean spotify.com will definitely be unavailable during severe cable congestion?

Not necessarily. This result is inferred from resource dependencies observed while loading the homepage. It reflects higher risk—not a guarantee that every page or every feature would fail completely.

How is resilience for spotify.com under cable outages assessed?

When opening the homepage of spotify.com, we observed 135 requests across 17 domains.
If any involve connections abroad, the outcome is classified as “Will not work.” If there are no foreign connections but there is reliance on in-country nodes of multinational cloud services, the outcome is “Uncertain.” If connections are only domestic aside from that international-cloud pattern, the outcome is “May work.”
For detailed rules and the full workflow, see the research methodology and overall report.

Site location

  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLC35.186.224.24

Connection information

  • Domestic / CloudAS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.cdn.cookielaw.org
  • Domestic / CloudAS13335 Cloudflare, Inc.geolocation.onetrust.com
  • Domestic / OtherAS3462 Data Communication Business Groupencore.scdn.co
  • Domestic / OtherAS3462 Data Communication Business Groupi.scdn.co
  • Foreign / CloudAS54113 Fastly, Inc.www.spotify.com
  • Foreign / CloudAS54113 Fastly, Inc.open.spotify.com
  • Foreign / CloudAS54113 Fastly, Inc.open.spotifycdn.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS15169 Google LLCwww.google.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS15169 Google LLCwww.gstatic.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCapresolve.spotify.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCo22381.ingest.sentry.io
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCgae2-spclient.spotify.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCclienttoken.spotify.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCspclient.wg.spotify.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS396982 Google LLCapi-partner.spotify.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS15169 Google LLCwww.googletagmanager.com

Test parameters

Test environment

  • IP: 220.132.212.194
  • City: Banqiao
  • Region: Taipei
  • Country: TW
  • Organization: AS3462 Data Communication Business Group
  • DNS server: 168.95.1.1

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    "org": "AS3462 Data Communication Business Group",
    "timezone": "Asia/Taipei",
    "source": "ipinfo json api (direct)",
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      "direct": 2
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      "cloud": 3,
      "direct": 0
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