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Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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It's updated now - updates for service outages at this level generally need signoff form someone higher up the chain

But shouldn't the individual service dots be automatically turning another color than green? I mean it's an automated service status page, right? Whether there is a human message at the top and that can take some time I understand.

An automated one would be red 100% the time.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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What's the point of having a status page if it doesn't indicate the issues? https://status.azure.com/en-us/status Azure, Teams, Outlook are almost down from Greece and Germany, and their status page shows that everything is fine :-)

It's updated now - updates for service outages at this level generally need signoff form someone higher up the chain

or, they could be automated and transparent

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#125
> The issue is causing impact in waves, peaking approximately every 30 minutes.

Does anyone have any general ideas on what kind of outage manifests itself like this? Devices retrying to authenticate every 30 minutes and finding the service is down perhaps?

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed Shit is expensive as hell For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year Or something decent for a month Edit 10ms https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/micr…

what you show there should cost like 300/month to run. Its very transparent pricing, its just bad that the tutorial doesn't mention that. You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right? A kubernetes cluster with 11 full scale microservices that are dimensioned so they can serve the average medium size business. For only a hobby this is huuuuuuugely overdimensioned. If you were to do the same on azure, it would…

> You do realize what you setup in that tutorial right?

Sure, buyer beware but is it reasonable that a clearly marked demo project is set up with services to that level of resourcing?

Nobody is going to take a demo like that and start running a business off it tomorrow.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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I'm so surprised by MS's strategy for using random domains and TLD's, this certainly don't make it easy for phishing avoidance.

Luckily Microsoft also provides a service for that: Safelinks https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/off... Also a personal favorite of mine: http://microsft.com (not entirely sure if its just to prevent typosquatting or if this is actually used in some products)

microsft.com was used specifically for telemetry to bypass web proxy blocks for *.microsoft.com put in by administrators of secure networks.

I know this because I was one of those admins trying to plug the leaks.

Windows 10 + Office uses 200+ domains just for Microsoft stuff, of which something like 120 are for telemetry.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#128

It's good that Microsoft saved money via layoffs so that it balances out when customers leave Azure. Very forward thinking company.

Leave to go where?

On-premise and being miserable having to wait months to get a new server with poor automation, observability and worse outages? To another major cloud provider with similar pricing and outages?

Cloud helped mostly with automation and scaling but if your system is that critical, you should consider a good CDN as load balancer and multi-cloud (or at least multi-region) for actual robustness.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#129

Azure is the most developer hostile cloud environment. I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve. Sorry for being so miserable, but Azure has given me soooo much grief over the last 10 years that I'm just completely done with this shitshow of a platform.

Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed Shit is expensive as hell For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year Or something decent for a month Edit 10ms https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/micr…

Dude, you blindly ran some random code on a metered cloud service.

If somebody gives you keys to a Ferrari, don't blame the manufacturer when you drive it off a cliff at 120 miles/hour...

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