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Azure was having DNS issues

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Re: Azure was having DNS issues

#34
There have been some internal debates about setting up a secondary DNS in case Route53 somehow went down. My reasoning has thusfar been that if Route53 is down, there are probably other AWS services that we depend on that would also be down.

What do you guys think? Is secondary DNS in this case worth it?

Re: Azure was having DNS issues

#37
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azuredns100sla/?cd...

> Azure DNS is now being offered at a 100% availability SLA that's backed by our diverse, geo-redundant DNS infrastructure.

> With this update, Azure DNS guarantees that valid DNS requests will receive a response from at least one name server 100% of the time. For details, see the SLA definition.

This hasn't aged well

Re: Azure was having DNS issues

#38
post #18
post #8

Alternate status page, of course showing all green across the board in typical Azure fashion. https://status2.azure.com/

Does this have to be posted every time some cloud service has issues? We, as in people in this forum, know that status pages are worthless. They’re tools with the explicit purpose of reducing the burden on tier one customer support. That’s it. They are not a public monitoring platform.

Having a fully up to date status page is what prevents useless repetitive cases during degradation or an outage. If I'm having issues but you show all green, I'm submitting a case.

Re: Azure was having DNS issues

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https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azuredns100sla/?cd... > Azure DNS is now being offered at a 100% availability SLA that's backed by our diverse, geo-redundant DNS infrastructure. > With this update, Azure DNS guarantees that valid DNS requests will receive a response from at least one name server 100% of the time. For details, see the SLA definition. This hasn't aged well

If I understand this correctly, everything unavailable is eligible for a 25% credit, and if the downtime exceeds ~4 hours then it's a free month.

Neat!

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