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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by deaux »

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.

From today [0].

> Big Tech lobbying is riding the EU’s deregulation wave by spending more, hiring more, and pushing more, according to a new report by NGO’s Corporate Europe Observatory and LobbyControl on Wednesday (29 October).

> Based on data from the EU’s transparency register, the NGOs found that tech companies spend the most on lobbying of any sector, spending €151m a year on lobbying — a 33 percent increase from €113m in 2023.

Gee whizz, I really do wonder how they end up having all the power!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45744973

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by bob1029 »

For some reason an Azure outage does not faze me in the same way that an AWS outage does.

I have never had much confidence in Azure as a cloud provider. The vertical integration of all the things for a Microsoft shop was initially very compelling. I was ready to fight that battle. But, this fantasy was quickly ruined by poor execution on Microsoft's part. They were able to convince me to move back to AWS by simply making it difficult to provision compute resources. Their quota system & availability issues are a nightmare to deal with compared to EC2.

At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. The number of things Microsoft gets right in 2025 can be counted single-handedly. The things they do get right are quite good, but everything else tends to be extremely awful.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by croemer »

planewave wrote: post #220
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…

Azure Network Availability Issues Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state. We ha…

"We have initiated the deployment of our 'last known good' configuration. This is expected to be fully deployed in about 30 minutes from which point customers will start to see initial signs of recovery. Once this is completed, the next stage is to start to recover nodes while we route traffic through these healthy nodes."

"This message was last updated at 18:11 UTC on 29 October 2025"

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by out_sider »

Figs wrote: post #347
jonathanlydall wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you pay for CloudFlare’s Enterpise plan, you’re required to have them host your DNS zone, you can use a different registrar as long as you just point your NS records to Cloudflare. Be aware that if you’re using Azure as your registrar, it’s (probably still) impossible to change your NS records to point to CloudFlare’s DNS server, at least it was for me about 6 months ago. This also makes it impossible to trans…

CloudFlare != CloudFront

I meant cloudfare

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by 1718627440 »

monkaiju wrote: post #255
syntaxing wrote: post #230

I absolutely love the utility aspect of LLMs but part of me is curious if moving faster by using AI is going to make these sorts of failure more and more often.

If true then what "utility" is there?

More visibility for the general person to see how brittle software is?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by mirekrusin »

cyberax wrote: post #333
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?

> CSAM Child Sex-Abuse Material?!? Well, a nice case of acronym collision.

They should rename to Success Customer Account Manager.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by 01284a7e »

Uehreka wrote: post #87

I 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.

Ha, maybe rethink the I AM NOTHING BUT A HUGE CLOUD CONSUMER thing on some fundamental levels? Like food?
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