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Tell HN: Azure outage
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#162I just tried to check the Xbox services status page and it never even loaded.
Majority of actual Xbox services are working fine, xbox.com itself is busted.
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#163According to downtector.com - both AWS and GCP are down as well. Interesting
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#164now aws down again?
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#165I noticed that Starbucks mobile ordering was down and thought “welp, I guess I’ll order a bagel and coffee on Grubhub”, then GrubHub was down. My next stop was HN to find the common denominator, and y’all did not disappoint.
Wow I just left a Starbucks drivethru line because it was just not moving. I guess it was because of this.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
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".
It's always DNS
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#167things seem to be coming back up now
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#168Quite close to the recent AWS outage. Let me take a look if its a major one similar to AWS. Any guess on what's causing it? In hindsight, I guess the foresight of some organizations to go multi-cloud was correct after all.
We're multi-cloud and it really saved a few workloads last week with the AWS issue.
It's not easy though.
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#169The Internet is supposed to be decentralized. The big three seem to have all the power now (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) plus Cloudflare/Oracle.
How did we get here? Is it because of scale? Going to market in minutes by using someone else's computers instead of building out your own, like co-location or dedicated servers, like back in the day.
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#170Some exec at Microsoft told the Azure guys to ape everything Amazon does and they took it literally.