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Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by macintux »

Elgolfin wrote: post #35
reasonabl_human wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the right answer from a proper dev ops and opsec POV

The solution may have a serious cost depending on your architecture. You will have to make sure it is worth the investment. Replicating and keeping a whole infrastructure stand-by is not an easy job for an one-hour outage. Sometimes, it is not the right solution either. It really depends on the business you are in.

It's also possible that you could accidentally stumble into a situation where doubling your presence also doubles the risk of significant problems.

Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by fartcannon »

smitop wrote: post #34

Looks like this took down the national emergency alert system in Canada. I'm registered as an alert LMD (last mile distributor), and Pelmorex (corporation running the system) just emailed me to say "Please note that currently there is an unexpected significant outage on Microsoft Azure that is affecting the availability of the NAADS system and other clients globally. The NAAD System feeds are currently not accessible…

And here it is, the main problem with outsourcing critical infrastructure. Remote server providers like Microsoft Azure should at most be used as twins/redundant systems to a locally managed system.

Governments of the world: pay your IT people more money to prevent brain drain.

Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by edoceo »

Elgolfin wrote: post #33
king_magic wrote: post #3

bing.com, status.azure.com, status2.azure.com - all down. Can't sign into portal.azure.com, can't hit Azure File Shares, etc. The last outage a few days ago was enough for my company to up and move most of our stuff to AWS. This new outage is enough for us to fully migrate away from Azure. What a cluster.

Speaking of this. There is always this kind of conclusion every time there is a major outage on a cloud provider. I am not sure one is better than the others. Though, I would prefer to rely on facts and numbers instead of feelings. So, is there a website that monitors and keeps track of this kind of major outages for all the 3 big Cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)? So that we can compare their resilience?

I want this too

Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by [deleted] »

partiallypro wrote: post #24
feyman_r wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AWS: https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ Cloudflare: https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/

The problem with downdetector is that people say something is down when really it's another service. Like with Cloudflare, a lot of the comments are simply that a website was down giving an CF error, but in reality it was probably not CF that was down but an underlying service.

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Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by aynsof »

fartcannon wrote: post #42
smitop wrote: post #34

Looks like this took down the national emergency alert system in Canada. I'm registered as an alert LMD (last mile distributor), and Pelmorex (corporation running the system) just emailed me to say "Please note that currently there is an unexpected significant outage on Microsoft Azure that is affecting the availability of the NAADS system and other clients globally. The NAAD System feeds are currently not accessible…

And here it is, the main problem with outsourcing critical infrastructure. Remote server providers like Microsoft Azure should at most be used as twins/redundant systems to a locally managed system. Governments of the world: pay your IT people more money to prevent brain drain.

Do you think locally managed systems are immune to outages? Or that governments are capable of resourcing their teams sufficiently to do a better job at availability than Microsoft, Google, or Amazon?

Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by Buttons840 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #40
lima wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The data is still useful in aggregate.

Marginally, if anything. Non-technical users misattribute and misunderstand causes of outages. There’s a comment on the AWS page complaining that iTunes gift cards are being slow to arrive. The Google page has people who think the comments are the place to talk to Google support. A major outage will make itself known in far clearer ways.

> Non-technical users misattribute and misunderstand causes of outages.

The website simply answers the question "is anyone else having trouble accessing this?" In practice that's all it does, and that is useful.

Re: MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated

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Post by smitop »

smitop wrote: post #34

Looks like this took down the national emergency alert system in Canada. I'm registered as an alert LMD (last mile distributor), and Pelmorex (corporation running the system) just emailed me to say "Please note that currently there is an unexpected significant outage on Microsoft Azure that is affecting the availability of the NAADS system and other clients globally. The NAAD System feeds are currently not accessible…

Just got another email from them, apparently "the issue appears to have been resolved with Microsoft Azure". Looks like the problem is resolved
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