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Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by LamaOfRuin »

ceejayoz wrote: post #114
Beached wrote: post #101

This may be greater then just west Europe. I personally have servers in US East that are unreachable, and there are a few reports of others in US region reporting partial unavailability for the US based servers. I wonder how many customers Azure just lost do to their unexpected 2 day fiasco

> I wonder how many customers Azure just lost do to their unexpected 2 day fiasco Amazon had a number of EBS fiascoes and survived just fine. I'd expect Azure to do the same.

Each of Amazon's high profile failures did have many people formulating previously non-existent escape plans though, and there are now several alternatives in this space that can offer the same scale.

It's obviously not going to destroy anyone's business, but there is a lot more competition than there used to be.

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Post by tankenmate »

sphildreth wrote: post #113
matthewmacleod wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So much for the idea of 99.999% uptime with the magical "cloud" buzzword Who was selling that to you? Because I'm pretty sure it wasn't Microsoft…

Oh its 99.9% from Microsoft see http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/ which means they get 9h a year to hit the SLA see http://uptime.is/

Except most people use monthly periods for their SLAs

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Post by rbanffy »

jacalata wrote: post #79
maccard wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The other aspect is privacy - in theory, all user's data can be stored and accessed forever, eg. 20 years from now, when the reincarnation of someone like Stalin comes to power. Is havin your stuff stores locally any more secure in that situation. If someone wants your data they'll knock on your door and beat you and your family until you give it to them

If you have the only copy, you can destroy it.

They will still beat you up until you produce the data you have destroyed, which is until they get tired of beating you up. You could keep some decoy data you produce in such situations, preferably before the beating starts.

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Post by silverbax88 »

The idea of cloud storage being down is less of an issue - I don't like it, but I understand it. What bothers me about this is:

1. I was never notified of the outage. I noticed it myself when attempting to log into one of my VMs and then started looking for status updates. Sadly, the best status updates I got were here on Hacker News.

2. When my servers did come back up, at least one of my IP addresses had changed, which meant I had to update all of the relevant DNS entries (which, as everyone here no doubt knows, can take up to 48 hours to propagate). I was never notified of this change in any way.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by davis »

icebraining wrote: post #67
ohyesyodo wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just apply same buggy network patch to all DCs at once? They use software networking so causing something like this should be easy. Or mess up network routing for *.blob.core.windows.net which pretty much all of Azure relies on.

Isn't applying the same patch everywhere at once a major anti-pattern?

Yes.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by joshmlewis »

inglor wrote: post #98

We've been noticing ups and downs for the last few hours of our VM powering an important database in West Europe. Seriously considering another layer above azure to mitigate this in the future. Very disappointing to see. At least initially their status indicated they're handing the problem but lately it's just been "All Good" and they said they resolved it on twitter but it's not at 100% yet: http://azure.microsoft.c…

Someone else mentioned routing to divert traffic to working data centers. That might be an option for you.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by Maarten88 »

silverbax88 wrote: post #125

The idea of cloud storage being down is less of an issue - I don't like it, but I understand it. What bothers me about this is: 1. I was never notified of the outage. I noticed it myself when attempting to log into one of my VMs and then started looking for status updates. Sadly, the best status updates I got were here on Hacker News. 2. When my servers did come back up, at least one of my IP addresses had changed, w…

2. Azure does not guarantee that you keep your ip address by default. You should configure a cname if you use Azure Websites or get a reserved ip address, available with Cloud Services

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by equoid »

shaydoc wrote: post #112
sphildreth wrote: post #108

So much for the idea of 99.999% uptime with the magical "cloud" buzzword. I noticed during this downtime in North America that Word Online wasn't functioning as my daughter tried to use it to do some homework.

If you want 99.999% uptime, use Azure TrafficManager and set up failover loadbalancing to different datacenters. We have failover loadbalancing running between multiple datacenters, no issue here! edit : 99.99%

The SLA mentions 99.9% or 99.99% for Database connectivity. Where does 99.999% come from?

Do Microsoft say this about Traffic Manager or are you suggesting you have to pay for extra services to get the advertised reliability figure?

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