At least MSFT is consistent: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ is down as well
Likely behind Azure Front Door.
Much of Xbox is behind that too.
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#132I noticed that Starbucks mobile ordering was down and thought “welp, I guess I’ll order a bagel and coffee on Grubhub”, then GrubHub was down. My next stop was HN to find the common denominator, and y’all did not disappoint.
Starbucks mobile was down during the AWS outage too...
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll be interested in the incident writeup since DNS is mentioned. It will be interesting in a way if it is similar to what happened at AWS.
It's pretty unlikely. AWS published a public 'RCA' https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/ . A race condition in a DNS 'record allocator' causing all DNS records for DDB to be wiped out. I'm simplifying a bit, but I don't think it's likely that Azure has a similar race condition wiping out DNS records on _one_ system than then propagates to all others. The similarity might just end at "it was DNS".
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#134I 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.
Might be a failsafe, if you cant get a license status, and you're aware that MS is down, just default to the highest tier.
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#135Re: Tell HN: Azure outage
#136I noticed that Starbucks mobile ordering was down and thought “welp, I guess I’ll order a bagel and coffee on Grubhub”, then GrubHub was down. My next stop was HN to find the common denominator, and y’all did not disappoint.
Starbucks mobile was down during the AWS outage too...
Gonna build my application to be multicloud so that it requires multiple cloud platforms to be online at the same time. The RAID 0 of cloud computing.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah the graph for that one looks exactly the same shape. I wonder if they were depending on some azure component somehow, or maybe there were things hosted on both and the azure failure made enough things failover to AWS that AWS couldn't cope? If that was the case I'd expect to see something similar with GCP too though. Edit: nope looks like there's actually a spike on GCP as well
It's possibly more likely that people mis-attribute the cause of an outage to the wrong providers when they use downdetector.
Definitely also a strong possibility. I wish I had paid more attention during the AWS one earlier to see what other things looked like on there at the time.
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#139i guess folks in azure wanted to show some solidarity with aws brethren (couldn't resist adding it. i acknowledge this comment adds no value to the discussion)
Azure goes down all the time. On Friday we had an entire regional service down all day. Two weeks ago same thing different region. You only hear about it when it's something everyone uses like the portal, because in general nobody uses Azure unless they're held hostage.
Yeah, im regretting my decision to buy an xbox now. Every once in a while, everything goes down.