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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by tgv » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:46 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #84

Not seeing it. I have VMs in US East and Netherlands and they're up.

I tried to look some things up on their support pages before 1600Z, and it timed-out. The Dutch railways are also affected (they're an MS shop, IIRC).

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Ylpertnodi » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:49 PM UTC

bossyTeacher wrote: post #293

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?

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

Better service costs money.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by whalesalad » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:49 PM UTC

Yikes, http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/ is running on Azure and it's down. So any SOAP/WSDL api's are dead in the water.

    HTTPSConnectionPool(host='schemas.xmlsoap.org', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: /soap/encoding/ (Caused by SSLError(CertificateError("hostname 'schemas.xmlsoap.org' doesn't match '*.azureedge.net'")))

A service we rely on that isn't even running on Azure is inaccessible due to this issue. For an asset that probably never changes. Wild for that to be the SPOF.

160k+ results on GitHub: https://github.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fschemas.xmlsoap.org...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by robotnikman » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:50 PM UTC

gianpaj wrote: post #208

Can't download VSCode :D Error: visual-studio-code: Download failed on Cask 'visual-studio-code' with message: Download failed: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.105.1/darwin-arm64/st...

Also cant do anything right now with the repo's we have in Azure Devops, how lovely...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by RajT88 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:51 PM UTC

riffic wrote: post #383

RajT88 wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite so. The acronym collision rate is high.

In general, plain language works so much better than throwing bowls of alphabet soup around.

That's a funny criticism to make on a tech forum.

But, for future reference:

site:microsoft.com csam

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by AtNightWeCode » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

hedayet wrote: post #348

The sad thing is - $MSFT isn't even down by 1%. And IIRC, $AMZN actually went up during their previous outage. So if we look at these companies' bottom lines, all those big wigs are actually doing something right. Sales and lobbying capacity is way more effective than reliability or good engineering (at least in the short term).

I looked into this before and the stocks of these large corps simply does not move when outages happens. Maybe intra-day, I don't have that data, but in general no effect.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by arccy » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

bob1029 wrote: post #362

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 ma…

The only reason you'd notice MS was down was if Github was down....

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by RajT88 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:52 PM UTC

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.

Definitely the most baffling acronym collision I have seen with Microsoft. I did one time count 4 different products abbreviated VSTS at one point.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by delf » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC

The outage impacted GitSocial minor version bump release: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitSocia...

There's no way to tell, and after about 30 minutes, the release process on VS Code Marketplace failed with a cryptic message: "Repository signing for extension file failed.". And there's no way to restart/resume it.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Spooky23 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 6:53 PM UTC

ryandrake wrote: post #216

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.

You'd think any SeriousBusiness would have a backup way to take customers' money. This is the one thing you always want to be able to do: accept payment. If they made it so they can't do that, they deserve the hit to their revenue. People should just walk out of the store with the goods if they're not being charged. Why doesn't someone in the store at least have one of those manual kachunk-kachunk carbon copy card re…

It’s family dollar. They don’t care about customer satisfaction and the cost of reliability is cost.

The stores are in the hood or middle of nowhere. The customers don’t have many options.