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Azure Appears to Be Full

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Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by sksksk »

sz4kerto wrote: post #8

This is a bit like the financial crisis in 2008. In 2008, the idea was that if you bundle up a large bunch of mortgages, then the bundle will have low risk because the chances of everything failing at the same time is low. The cloud is designed so that resource usage spikes of individual customers can always be served because one customer is very small compared to the whole infrastructure. However, in some cases, the…

It's a pretty common model in many industries...

If every gym member visited the gym at the same time, they wouldn't all fit. Only a small fraction of the members use the gym at any one time, so it works.

Banks would crash if everyone tried to withdraw their money at the same time, but they don't, so the bank can loan the money out.

Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by jiggawatts »

redis_mlc wrote: post #13
Just1689 wrote: post #5

I think this introduces some interesting points to the DR and BCP conversation. Is it a safe bet that we can rely on the cloud to have capacity? Normally I wouldn't doubt it but in this sort of situation is becomes more likely they will be put under capacity stress. Will the cloud vendors learn and build slack in? I think they're very lean operations and maybe this kind of slack would damage the profitability too muc…

> Normally I wouldn't doubt it but in this sort of situation Then you're very misinformed. As a cloud administrator, I see resource availability and account limits on a weekly basis going back years. I tell people: - to pre-provision at least some extra servers rather than wait for an autoscaling operation to fail. - that new instance types often are rolled out gradually, and lead time is often 1 month in AWS - that…

bUt ThE sAlEs GuY sAiD tHe ClOuD iS cHeApEr!

Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by jiggawatts »

tyingq wrote: post #4

I'm watching many struggle also with on-prem VPNs, Citrix, WebEx, and so on. Though there do seem to be honest efforts to shore those up and also try more modern tools. I imagine a lot of stodgy companies will have a much better WFH environment after all the dust settles.

I'm running around fixing load balancers, SSL gateways, NetScalers, converting double-hop to single-hop access, upgrading key components, etc...

It's kinda fun, but it's also infuriating that 90% of our customers decided to wait until the week before the lockdown that we warned them would be coming months ago.

Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by logicallee »

estensen wrote: post #22

I think it's very problematic that a major cloud provider is unable to update their status page, even when this has been ongoing for days. All green ticks here: https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

How to Use a Cloud Provider Status Page:

1. Enter the URL of the cloud provider's status page into your browser and press enter.

2. If the status page loads instantly, all services are go.

3. If the status page takes between 2 and 5 seconds to serve, the cloud provider is experiencing a slowdown.

4. If the status page takes between 5 and 30 seconds to load, the cloud provider is experiencing a major problem.

5. If the status page takes between 30 seconds and 1 minute to load, requires you to refresh before you can see it, or fails to load completely such as with missing images, then the cloud provider is experiencing widespread problems in multiple regions and has only sporadic availability.

6. If the status page doesn't load at all, all services are down. Check the CEO's twitter page.

7. If the CEO's twitter page has a pinned tweet telling you not to worry, then all of your data has been lost.

Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by sarathyweb »

jeffhuys wrote: post #9
redwood wrote: post #6

AWS and GCP are not full

Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.

For my UG project, I am building a platform to provision, monitor and manage cloud resources from cloud providers including AWS, Digitalocean and GCP through a single web interface.

The platform also have the ability to deploy commonly used web applications like WordPress, Moodle, etc.

I will launch here in HN when the platform is ready to launch.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know.

Re: Azure Appears to Be Full

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Post by dannyeei »

tyingq wrote: post #11
jeffhuys wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like an opportunity for building a service that uses AWS, GCP or Azure based on which is cheapest at that moment + which is not "full"... Unless that already exists.

Lowest common denominator though. If you can use just plain old VMs, there's probably little value in using the big cloud vendors. Traditional hosting would be loads cheaper.

Really? Do you mean running your own data center or what services are you referring to?
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