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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by RajT88 »

llama052 wrote: post #243
RajT88 wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spam those Azure tickets. If you have a CSAM, build them a nice powerpoint telling the story of all your AFD issues (that's what they are there for). > In 50%+ the cases they just don‘t report it anywhere, even if its for 2h+. I assume you mean publicly. Are you getting the service health alerts?

I got a service health alert an hour after it started, saying the portal was having issues. Pretty useless and misleading.

That should go into the presentation you provide your CSAM with as well.

Storytelling is how issues get addressed. Help the CSAM tell the story to the higher ups.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by randomsofr »

hypeatei wrote: post #250

All of my employers things are hosted on Azure and running just fine and didn't go down at all. Portal access has been fixed. Doesn't seem to be too bad of an outage unless you were relying on Azure Front Door.

SSO is down, Azure Portal Down and more, seems like a major outage. Already a lot of services seem to be affected: banks, airlines, consumer apps, etc.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by alt227 »

dboreham wrote: post #239
AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #170

Some exec at Microsoft told the Azure guys to ape everything Amazon does and they took it literally.

This is funny but also possibly true because: business/MBA types see these outages as a way to prove how critical some services are, leading to investors deciding to load up on the vendor's stock.

I may or may not have been known to temporarily take a database down in the past to make a point to management about how unreliable some old software is.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by SoKamil »

pphysch wrote: post #186
MangoCoffee wrote: post #169

The 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.

Consolidation is the inevitable outcome of free unregulated markets. In our highly interconnected world, decentralization paradoxically requires a central authority to enforce decentralization by restricting M&A, cartels, etc.

Is there a theorem that models this behavior? Capital feels like a mass that attracts more mass the larger it becomes, like gravity.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by consp »

jrodom wrote: post #226
chasd00 wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a Family Dollar by my house that is down at least 2 full days per month because of bad inet connectivity. I live close enough that with a small tower on my roof i can get line of sight to theirs. I've thought about offering them a backup link off my home inet if they give me 50% of sales whenever its in use. It would be a pretty good deal for them, better some sales when their inet is down vs none.

50% of sales? what do you think the gross margin is on average for each item sold?

2-3%, bit higher on perishables. Though i'd just ask lump sum payments in cash since it likely has to no go through corporate (as in, avoid the corporation).

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by drjasonharrison »

llama052 wrote: post #69
tartieret wrote: post #58

Microsoft posted an update on X: https://x.com/AzureSupport/status/1983569891379835372?ref_sr... "We’re investigating an issue impacting Azure Front Door services. Customers may experience intermittent request failures or latency. Updates will be provided shortly."

Always fun when you can't trust the main status page but have to go to some opinionated social medial website to see the actual problem.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/tesla-grok-mom-9.695693...

This mom’s son was asking Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot about soccer. It told him to send nude pics, she says

xAI, the company that developed Grok, responds to CBC: 'Legacy Media Lies'

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by hypeatei »

randomsofr wrote: post #262
hypeatei wrote: post #250

All of my employers things are hosted on Azure and running just fine and didn't go down at all. Portal access has been fixed. Doesn't seem to be too bad of an outage unless you were relying on Azure Front Door.

SSO is down, Azure Portal Down and more, seems like a major outage. Already a lot of services seem to be affected: banks, airlines, consumer apps, etc.

The portal is up for me and their status page confirms they did a failover for it. Definitely not disputing that its reach is wide, but a lot of smaller setups probably aren't using Front Door.
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