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Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by fomine3 »

luckylion wrote: post #88
tenplusfive wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

I don't know whether it's a typo but https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/contact-us-91f63b4... lists "EOC: criskgro@microsft.com (For CEE and MEA)" under the Microsoft Credit Services. It feels like a typo, but who knows. If they don't have anything in place to catch this type of error, it's probably a good idea to register every domain someone could accidentally type.

There's no MX record on the domain so it seems to typo

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Post by 6451937099 »

cryptonym wrote: post #128
spoils19 wrote: post #67

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.

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Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by throwawaythekey »

sofixa wrote: post #97
dx034 wrote: post #84

Shows that all these availability zones and regions don't really help if an outage can knock out a whole cloud provider. And that's not specific to Microsoft. The only way to really ensure uptime is to use two providers. Sadly, that's basically only possible with on-prem/colocation where traffic is cheap.

It's mostly Azure though that is badly designed to such an extent that multiple times there have been global outages. In general Azure availability, security (the only major cloud provider with not one but multiple cross-tenant security exploits) and usability are pretty terrible so it shouldn't be used for anything but saying "this is how it should not be done". GCP had a similar thing once, where a BGP update knock…

There have been several cloudfront outages that have effectively been semi global outages

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by heinternets »

jakewins wrote: post #190
cryptonym wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

AWS and GCP both have ~100% uptime in every region for VMs this month. Meanwhile the majority of Azure regions have had various outages in the same period: https://cloudharmony.com/status-of-compute

Right after an outage of course it will show like that.

After an AWS outage it would also look non favourably on AWS right?

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Post by telcal »

sli wrote: post #220

Every Azure product I've had to use has been lousy in every possible way. Azure DevOps at my last employer was a nightmare and nobody in the company liked it, not even the managers who decided on it.

I use Azure DevOps daily and honestly have no issues, it works well. What didn't work for you?

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Post by cutemonster »

HideousKojima wrote: post #198
dekerta wrote: post #194

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Our work switched from Slack to Teams after an acquisition, and I can confidently say that Teams is just complete garbage compared to Slack. - The interface is laggy - Scrolling back in long messages is buggy, it often skips around and loses its place - No built in "whiteboarding" tools in screen sharing - Teams will often keep ringing on my phone for up to a minute after I picked up a call on my laptop - Sometimes I…

Also for several weeks recently my phone was getting messages several minutes before they showed up on my laptop, and 3 or 4 of my coworkers (all remote and in various parts of the US) confirmed they were having the same issue.

Thanks (both of you). (Then I understand better)

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by steve1977 »

hnarn wrote: post #132
steve1977 wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they were relying on Outlook and Teams to be productive, they probably couldn't really work before either.

What a naive comment. As if the only truly important jobs exist in engineering and require nothing but git and a book on C.

That wasn't my point. But tools like Teams kill more productivity than they enable, at least in my experience. If anything, I was more productive yesterday, because I got disturbed less.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

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Post by emptysongglass »

Art9681 wrote: post #229
dsign wrote: post #34

This makes you wonder if some centralization patterns, i.e. Azure AD, are not a national security problem?

Microsoft has a lesser known Azure Gov Cloud specifically because of this that is disconnected from public Cloud. This includes dedicated staff with vetted secret clearances for access to those systems. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastruct...

Can anyone make use of this?
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