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Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by Jamie9912 »

jeffbee wrote: post #26

EC2 us-east-1 is chronically stocked out, too. Black Friday is the worst day of the year for this. At work, we pre-allocated tons of EC2 machines we don't really need, to hedge against EC2 stockout coinciding with some kind of incident. Yes, we are part of the problem.

Part of what problem? I don't remember us-east-1 ever running out of instances

Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by janober »

geonaut wrote: post #59

Any optimisations you can make? Will have the advantage of saving you money across all platforms/regions

Yes, some are possible and we are already doing that. Sadly will it only delay the time we run out of resources. If we would talk about a few weeks, we could for sure make it, but over 4 months is sadly not possible.

Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by dehrmann »

jakear wrote: post #49

People saying "shame on you for not being multi-region" are missing the point: This is a German company with German customers subject to German data residency laws. For them to store German data in a region besides Germany requires getting informed consent from the "data subject", who must be "pre-informed about the potential risks involved in cross-border data transfer". [1] This is why Azure has a dedicated German…

This is a good point, but it's a reminder that a lot of these privacy laws are impractical to deal with. When they're universal, it's one thing, but if you're a medium-sized country trying to flex your legislative might, you're going to make the experience worse for your citizens and businesses.

Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by robertlagrant »

scarface74 wrote: post #97
a99c43f2d565504 wrote: post #74

While you're at it at making your "infrastructure as code" cloud agnostic perhaps take a look at tools like Terraform (the only one I'm familiar with). I've just started the work of defining whatever we need to provision in their notation with the objective that it can be done with a single push of a button in the future.

There is nothing “cloud agnostic” about using Terraform. Anyone who says this has no experience actually trying to implement it. Terraform has different providers for each cloud provider and the code is not transferable any more than saying if you use Python to script your infrastructure it will be transferable.

Agreed. I've advised people same before. You can build to Kubernetes cluster-agnostic (mostly), but the stuff that gets you to that point will be very cloud-specific.

The reason for Terraform, and it's a good one, is your Terraform-related tooling doesn't have to change, e.g. if you route all your infra change approvals through Terraform Cloud), and you can coordinate multi-service changes, e.g. update Auth0 infra to do X, then AWS to do Y.

Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by websap »

janober wrote: post #91
dekhn wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll ask again what the person above asked: do you have a TAM. If you don't you're at a big disadvantage.

Sorry, missed that. No, we do not.

Get one asap. Your TAM is the insider and should push for you.

Re: Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected?

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Post by dustedcodes »

mmcconnell1618 wrote: post #81

I used to be a technical seller for Azure. This situation is obviously not great for you as a customer but there are proactive steps you can take to prevent this going forward. Reach out to your sales team and work with them on your roadmap for compute requirements going forward. The sales team has a forecast tool that feeds back into the department that buys and racks the equipment. If you can provide enough lead ti…

Why work with a human in the Azure sales department and plan cloud resources a year ahead? What’s the point of the cloud at this point? Then it just becomes a 100x more expensive version of hiring an infrastructure person and plan with them your own physical resources a year ahead.
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