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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by layer8 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:41 PM UTC

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.

DNS has both naming and cache invalidation, so no surprise it’s among the hardest things to get right. ;)

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by BenjiWiebe » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

chasd00 wrote: post #160

Jamie452 wrote: post #52

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

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.

Pretty sure it'd be a lot better deal for them to have no sales than to pay out 50% of sales on stuff with single digit margins.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by bossyTeacher » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:42 PM UTC

I noticed issues on Azure so I went to the status page. It said everything was fine even though the Azure Portal was down. It took more than 10 minutes for that status page to update.

How can one of the richest companies in the world not offer a better service?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by everfrustrated » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

GitHub runners (specifically the "larger" runner types) are all down for us. These are known to be hosted on Azure.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Aperocky » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

vachina wrote: post #177

microsoft.com and some subdomains (answers.microsoft.com) has no A and AAA records. They screwed up big time. https://archive.is/Q4izZ

wow, right after AWS suffered a similar thing.

I wonder if this is microsoft "learning" to "prevent" such an issue and instead triggered it...

"One often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it" -- Master Oogway

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dylan604 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

daveguy wrote: post #277

dylan604 wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you still on a dual T1? that's gotta be expensive

(and on to real DCs later) would imply their bare metal is now located in a data center.

really should stop skimming the comment when i find a part to comment on

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:43 PM UTC

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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by pred8er » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

on the line with msft, they said 4 hours is what they are thinking. a workaround they are saying is to use traffic manager,

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by terminalshort » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #279

Telemakhos wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or, the NSA needed to upgrade their access at both.

Do Microsoft still say "If the government has a broader voluntary national security program to gather customer data, we don't participate in it" today (which PRISM proved very false), or are they at least acknowledging they're participating in whatever NSA has deployed today?

PRISM wasn't voluntary. Also there are 3 levels here:

1. Mandatory

2. "Voluntary"

3. Voluntary

And I suspect that very little of what the NSA does falls into category 3. As Sen Chuck Schumer put it "you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you"

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by jmaker » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 5:45 PM UTC

mythz wrote: post #91

High availability is touted as a reason for their high prices, but I swear I read about major cloud outages far more than I experience any outages at Hetzner.

For one it’s statistics - Hetzner simply runs far fewer major services than hyperscalers. And the services they run are also more affluent, with larger customer bases, so downtimes are systemically critical. Therefore it’s louder.

On the merits though, I agree, haven’t had any serious issues with Hetzner.