Tell HN: Azure outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:37 AM UTC

SoftTalker wrote: post #112

Jamie452 wrote: post #52

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

Mind-boggling that any retailer would not have the capability to at least run the checkout stations offline.

Most retailers trust their cashiers a bit less than they trust the customers. They'd rather shut down during a power/Internet failure than give any autonomy to the worker drones.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by antonvdi » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:38 AM UTC

dude250711 wrote: post #727

michaelt wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)

Save it for when they stick Copilot into Azure portal.

They're already doing that.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by macintux » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:39 AM UTC

madjam002 wrote: post #730

neya wrote: post #708

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use

Isn’t it?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:42 AM UTC

hexbin010 wrote: post #192

tyfon wrote: post #43

Seems to be down in Norway. Even the national digital id service is down.

> Even the national digital id service is down. Can't help but smirk as my country is ramming through "Digital ID" right now

Someone somewhere thought that "national digital ID service" should absolutely rely on a cloud provider in and from another country.

What a time to be alive.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by bombcar » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

jmspring wrote: post #660

The outage was really weird. For me, parts of the portal worked, other parts didn't. I had access to a couple of resource groups, but no resources visible in those groups. Azure Devops Pipelines that needed do download from packages.microsoft.com didn't work. The Microsoft status page mostly referenced the portal outage, but it was more than that.

I hate these failures because you end up with things that keep working fine because the login credentials are cached, etc; but if you restart or otherwise refresh, you're doomed.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:43 AM UTC

dude250711 wrote: post #727

michaelt wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)

Save it for when they stick Copilot into Azure portal.

Ha, you haven't used it recently have you? Copilot is already there, and it can't do a single useful thing.

Me: "How do I connect [X] to [Y] using [Z]?"

Copilot: "Please select the AKS cluster you'd like to delete"

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by sfn42 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:44 AM UTC

neya wrote: post #708

xnorswap wrote: post #701

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33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

I've only used Azure, to me it seems fine ish. Some things are rather overcomplicated and it's far from perfect but I assumed the other providers were similarly complicated and imperfect.

Can't say I've experienced many bugs in there either. It definitely is overpriced but I assume they all are?

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by a012 » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:45 AM UTC

archon810 wrote: post #695

multiplegeorges wrote: post #445

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> At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. TBH, GCP is very good! More people should use it.

>I've used AWS, Azure, and recently GCP. You do NOT want to use GCP. >TBH, GCP is very good! More people should use it. These takes couldn't be further apart. Gotta love HN comments.

GCP console is not the best but as a long term multicloud user, I can assure you that GCP is much better than Azure portal and/or Azure APIs which is fucking hell

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by Hilift » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:48 AM UTC

macintux wrote: post #733

madjam002 wrote: post #730

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My favourite was the Azure CTO complaining that Git was unintuitive, clunky and difficult to use

Isn’t it?

Ironically, the GitHub Desktop Windows app is quite nice.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by alias_neo » Thu, Oct 30, 2025, 9:49 AM UTC

RajT88 wrote: post #231

cyptus wrote: post #224

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AFD is down quite often regionally in Europe for our services. In 50%+ the cases they just don‘t report it anywhere, even if its for 2h+.

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?

Where do these alerts supposedly come from? I started having issues around 4PM (GMT), couldn't access portal, and couldn't make AKV requests from the CLI, and initially asked our Ops guys but with no info and a vague "There may be issues with Portal" on their status page, that was me done for the day.