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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by OptionOfT »

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?

In that case the other 50%.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by TiredOfLife »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #399

Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is. Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well. This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't t…

One of recent (4 months ago) Cloudflare outages (I think it was even workers) was caused by Google Cloud being down and Cloudflare hosting an essential service there

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by alt227 »

marcosdumay wrote: post #430
navane wrote: post #358

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Look how important we are, is what these failures show

What do you mean? That IT isn't important for Microsoft and Amazon? That's certainly not the right conclusion.

I think he was implying that those companies think they are so important that it doesnt matter they are down, they wont loose any customers over it because they are too big and important.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by foresterre »

It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place.

Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time before the polls close, and they left for work before they opened).

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by kentonv »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #462
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #399

Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is. Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well. This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't t…

One of recent (4 months ago) Cloudflare outages (I think it was even workers) was caused by Google Cloud being down and Cloudflare hosting an essential service there

It was Workers KV (an optional storage add-on to Workers), and we fixed it, it no longer depends on GCP:

https://blog.cloudflare.com/rearchitecting-workers-kv-for-re...

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by conductr »

foresterre wrote: post #464

It still surprises me how much essential services like public transport are completely reliant on cloud providers, and don't seem to have backups in place. Here in The Netherlands, almost all trains were first delayed significantly, and then cancelled for a few hours because of this, which had real impact because today is also the day we got to vote for the next parlement (I know some who can't get home in time befor…

Is voting there a one day only event? If not, I feel the solution to that particular problem is quite clear. There’s a million things that could go wrong causing you to miss something when you try to do it in a narrow time range (today after work before polls close)

If it’s a multi day event, it’s probably that way for a reason. Partially the same as the solution to above.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by iamtheworstdev »

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).

well, at this point, 90% of the market cap of FAANGS plus Microsoft is... OMG AI LLM hype

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

TiredOfLife wrote: post #462
Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #399

Google cloud run or cloudflare workers it is. Personally I am thinking more and more about hetzner, yes I know its not an apples to orange comparison. But its honestly so good Someone had created a video where they showed the underlying hardware etc., I am wondering if there is something like https://vpspricetracker.com/ but with geek-benchmarks as well. This video was affiliated with scalahosting but still I don't t…

One of recent (4 months ago) Cloudflare outages (I think it was even workers) was caused by Google Cloud being down and Cloudflare hosting an essential service there

Hm it seemed that they hosted a critical service for cloudflare kv on google itself, but I wonder about the update.

Personally I just trust cloudflare more than google, given how their focus is on security whereas google feels googly...

I have heard some good things about google cloud run and the google's interface feels the best out of AWS,Azure,GCloud but I still would just prefer cloudflare/hetzner iirc

Another question: Has there ever been a list of all major cloud outages, like I am interested how many times google cloud and all cloud providers went majorly down I guess y'know? is there a website/git project that tracks this?

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