Tell HN: Azure outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ThatManulTheCat » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

Yudkowsky's feared Superintellignece holding Azure hostage

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by SoftTalker » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

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.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by LaserToy » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

Azure portal still insists the issue is jsut with Console.

We had to bypass the Frontdoor

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ThatManulTheCat » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

avgDev wrote: post #88

I am having a bunch of issues. It looks like their sites and azure are both affected. I also got weird notification in VS2022 that my license key was upgraded to Enterprise, but we did not purchase anything.

Free upgrade

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by m_fayer » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

dlcarrier wrote: post #95

Yesterday Amazon, today Microsoft. Are Google's cloud services going down tomorrow?

And if they don't, we'll know who the culprit is.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ksec » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

>Last week AWS, now this.

This is not the first or second time this happened, multiple Hyperscaler failed one by one.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by The_President » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

blenderob wrote: post #22

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status says everything's fine! Any place I can read more about this outage?

[dead]

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by jansper39 » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

rcarmo wrote: post #85

jeffdn wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don't run on Azure!

Are you absolutely sure?

They don't, however authentication for those services relies on Entra ID which seems to be affected.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by cbovis » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

Looks to be affecting our pipelines that rely on Playwright as they download images from Azure e.g. https://playwright.azureedge.net/builds/chromium/1124/chromi... which aren't currently resolving.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by ctoth » Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 4:51 PM UTC

rawgabbit wrote: post #74

Meanwhile the layoffs continue https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/microsoft-ceo-exp...

Layoffs will continue until uptime improves!