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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by reknih »

kierenj wrote: post #108
flumpcakes wrote: post #98

Pretty much all Azure services seem to be down. Their status page says it's only the portal since 16:00. It would be nice if these mega-companies could update their status page when they take down a large fraction of the Internet and thousands of services that use them.

FWIW, all of our databases, VMs, AKS clusters, services, jobs etc - are all working fine. Which services are down for you, maybe we can build a list?

Front Door is down for us (as Azure‘s Twitter account confirms)

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by rcarmo »

jansper39 wrote: post #118
rcarmo wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you absolutely sure?

They don't, however authentication for those services relies on Entra ID which seems to be affected.

I'd say DNS/Front Door (or some carrier interconnect) is the thing affected, since I can auth just fine in a few places. (I'm at MS, but not looped into anything operational these days, so I'm checking my personal subscription).

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by aurumque »

borg16 wrote: post #56

i guess folks in azure wanted to show some solidarity with aws brethren (couldn't resist adding it. i acknowledge this comment adds no value to the discussion)

Azure goes down all the time. On Friday we had an entire regional service down all day. Two weeks ago same thing different region. You only hear about it when it's something everyone uses like the portal, because in general nobody uses Azure unless they're held hostage.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Insanity »

8cvor6j844qw_d6 wrote: post #78
mystcb wrote: post #33

Update 16:57 UTC: Azure Portal Access Issues Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. In addition. customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. Customers can attempt to use programmatic methods (PowerShell, CLI, etc.) to access/utilize resources if they are unable to access the portal directly. We have faile…

I'll be interested in the incident writeup since DNS is mentioned. It will be interesting in a way if it is similar to what happened at AWS.

It's pretty unlikely. AWS published a public 'RCA' https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/. A race condition in a DNS 'record allocator' causing all DNS records for DDB to be wiped out.

I'm simplifying a bit, but I don't think it's likely that Azure has a similar race condition wiping out DNS records on _one_ system than then propagates to all others. The similarity might just end at "it was DNS".

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by withinboredom »

SoftTalker wrote: post #112
Jamie452 wrote: post #52

Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments

Mind-boggling that any retailer would not have the capability to at least run the checkout stations offline.

I knew an old guy in the '00s who specialized in cobal/fortran for working on tiller software. Guess he retired and they couldn't maintain it

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by parliament32 »

flumpcakes wrote: post #98

Pretty much all Azure services seem to be down. Their status page says it's only the portal since 16:00. It would be nice if these mega-companies could update their status page when they take down a large fraction of the Internet and thousands of services that use them.

All of our Azure workloads are up, but we don't use Azure Front Door. That seems to be the only impacted product, apart from the management portal.
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