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From here in Australia, developer tools tells me the video is coming from vod-akc-oc-east-1.media.dssott.com which appears to be an Akamai thing.
Akamai is just a CDN so it's cloud agnostic.
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My theory is that Amazon and Google are more prepared to handle surges because they run some of the largest web properties. This like every day is Black Friday for Amazon. It's rough, but not something they have never dealt with before.
GCP and GSuite had outages this week listed on their status pages. AWS has been rock solid for us in the 3 regions we operate in.
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Ability to pay is only one aspect of demand. There’s also how much you actually want it, and the amount of opportunity cost you’re willing to pay. Keeping prices artificially low keeps demand artificially high, while supply doesn’t increase, or cannot increase if it’s inelastic.
It doesn't matter if demand is artifial if there's a filter in place to allocate resources on a need-basis. Not matter the demand from non-need customers, they won't get it, or get less of it. The point in a crisis isn't to let markets find a natural equilibrium, which could mean it stabilizes into a state that isn't optimal to public health. On a crisis, the point is to prioritize those usages that will deal with an…
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Just like outside a crisis situation.
Possibly, but in a crisis situation it is quite a bit more important to deliver adequate service to the "need" group. Outside of a crisis, the "need" group can pursue less expensive alternatives at their leisure. Right now, "fast" is critical.
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>> Why would Microsoft be disproportionately affected by this? Nobody gets fired for buying Microsoft..er IBM. Inertia too.
If you're shopping for cloud providers, nobody gets fired for picking AWS. Microsoft is if you're looking for email, spreadsheets, and desktop publishing.
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Utilization.
Their utilization has gone up 700%? Bullshit.
Seems to be a cherry picked statistic, not an overall increase in utilization.
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> I'm fascinated by the concept of prioritization rules in place rather than simply raising prices Do you realise that it's potentially illegal to increase prices based on market demand during a crisis?
Right. It's important to the public that scarce goods instead by allocated by willingness to stand in line. What does standing in line mean for a corporation that could be anywhere in the world? Maybe some kind of proof-of-work scheme for the CEO or majority owner? Azure could service VM creation requests in the order of their creation, but "take a number" doesn't work as well. The opportunity cost of what else you c…
But it's analogous to toilet paper. If you are limited to one package per trip through the checkout line, yes, you can consider that to be allocating by willingness to stand in line. But the intent is simply to have a (not terribly strict) quota, and not to have you go through many times.
So it isn't as fundamentally screwed up as proof-of-work. Nobody is supposed to actually treat it that way.
Why would Microsoft be disproportionately affected by this? Are we expecting similar decrees from AWS and GCP? Or was Microsoft operating with less runway before this began?
Working with all three of them, so here's my two cents: 1. Mostly traditional, "legacy" companies have been hit hard by this. Ones that don't have culture or technology of work-from-home. Those companies use some Microsoft products. Also, Microsoft has been poaching them heavily, handing out trials, bundling licenses and so on. A lot of them don't actually buy stuff from Microsoft, but through 3rd party vendors which…
There are three kinds of lies... lies, damned lies, and cloud service status pages.
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Possibly, but in a crisis situation it is quite a bit more important to deliver adequate service to the "need" group. Outside of a crisis, the "need" group can pursue less expensive alternatives at their leisure. Right now, "fast" is critical.
And outside of a crisis situation demand patterns change much more gradually - long enough for manufacturers to ramp up production, more competitors to emerge etc. The normal feedback loops that make core goods available to the masses don't have time to happen right now.
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> It's important to the public that scarce goods instead by allocated by willingness to stand in line. It's important to keep in mind that a higher price is unlikely to lead to much additional capacity due to the nature of this shock. Companies have to do business with their customers for many years after this is over. "Sorry, we're overloaded with demand due to this crisis" sounds a lot better than "Pay us ten times…
"Sorry, we're overloaded with demand due to this crisis" is "go f* yourself." Although you're right, Microsoft may have correctly assessed that its customer relationships will turn out better if it leaves them completely hosed vs. hosed with an unpleasant escape hatch. It's still an interesting question: what kinds of allocation systems are best when for whatever reason market pricing is off the table? There are cert…
If different people need vastly different amounts of something, either they are able to judge, in which case prices work, or they are not, in which case some independent means of allocation has to be used.
I don't think waiting in line is a good method, but that doesn't mean unregulated prices always are either.