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Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by cooldeal »

huggyface wrote: post #37
recoiledsnake wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Less than 3.8% of users were affected, take your trolling else where.

Is it really trolling? Honestly, who uses Azure? Like most MSDN subscribers I did some mashing in it -- that still exists -- but did absolutely nothing real in it. My sense is that very, very few did anything beyond prototyping in it. And just to add some opinion, the reason I wouldn't even consider it is Microsoft absolutely flippant ADD when it comes to online services. I have zero faith that they won't just shut i…

A whole bunch of universities and government agencies.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by batista »

kokey wrote: post #33
Tloewald wrote: post #3

So is this a feb 29 bug? Problem occurred, it seems, at the advent of 2/29 GMT. Worst date handling ever?

I think this is the problem with rewriting platforms, libraries and languages from scratch instead of incrementally chiseling it into something stable like in the open unix world.

instead of incrementally chiseling it into something stable like in the open unix world.

LOL. If I had a penny for whenever the "open unix world" chose to re implement some stuff from scratch, I'd be rich. From Gnome and KDE always changing stuff (especially the KDE multimedia architecture took this to comical levels), to FreeBSD moving to Clang...

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by stickfigure »

ithkuil wrote: post #40
stickfigure wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compare this to administering machines yourself: Your "admin console" goes down every night for 8 hours while your sysadmin is asleep.

It's not unusual for my sysadmin to be waken up in the middle of the night

Lucky him.

(or her)

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by ahrens »

We had problems today. We had the bad luck that one of our web roles crashed during the time the admin interface was down. That meant we couldn't restart it and neither could microsoft. We will be adding instances to the role to avoid similar problems. Otherwise, we are very happy with Azure.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by huggyface »

cooldeal wrote: post #41
huggyface wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it really trolling? Honestly, who uses Azure? Like most MSDN subscribers I did some mashing in it -- that still exists -- but did absolutely nothing real in it. My sense is that very, very few did anything beyond prototyping in it. And just to add some opinion, the reason I wouldn't even consider it is Microsoft absolutely flippant ADD when it comes to online services. I have zero faith that they won't just shut i…

A whole bunch of universities and government agencies.

Such as? Microsoft's case studies for Azure are absolutely dismal.

I note the other comment mentions Apple, which was a pre-release beta rumor based upon the IP that a beta iMessage lived at (since moved). It speaks volumes, I think, when such a disproven pre-release claim is still held as the example.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by powertower »

ww520 wrote: post #38
powertower wrote: post #19

This seems to be about some odd certificate issue, not the network, which caused Microsoft to take access to its service management system down. From the article itself: > It later added that less than 3.8 per cent of hosted services had been affected. If this was about Google or Apple, this submit would already have been flagged, taken off the front page, and several accounts would have been hell-banned. It will be…

Can you elaborate what is the cert issue that causing the service down? It's always good to learn from temporary failure.

Today, February 29th, is a "leap day" which happens every 4 years in a "leap year"... Otherwise, the last day of February is the 28th, and today would normally be March 1st.

I'm assuming that when the day rolled over, it caused an issue with an internal system at Microsoft, that had something to do with certificate dates and/or timestamps.

It's not just Microsoft that it's happening to, today I could not automatically renew any domains at Namecheap that expire tomorrow because the registry could not produce the correct expire-at date.

Leap days cause odd issues.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by danielsoneg »

stickfigure wrote: post #43
ithkuil wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not unusual for my sysadmin to be waken up in the middle of the night

Lucky him. (or her)

In my rather limited experience as a sysadmin, I've found avoiding those calls to be one of my best motivators: My systems work like they're supposed to because I like my sleep.

Consider it a performance-based bonus.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

powertower wrote: post #19

This seems to be about some odd certificate issue, not the network, which caused Microsoft to take access to its service management system down. From the article itself: > It later added that less than 3.8 per cent of hosted services had been affected. If this was about Google or Apple, this submit would already have been flagged, taken off the front page, and several accounts would have been hell-banned. It will be…

>

Seriously? Alarmist flamebait headlines about Google and Apple stuff gets posted near daily.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by andypants »

latchkey wrote: post #34

Heroku Dyno's were down for a lot of clients for several hours on saturday. One site that I use a lot, Intercom.io, was completely off the grid because of this. I was wondering why there was no news about it here. https://status.heroku.com/incident/308

I'm sure I read about the heroku downtime on hacker news. Maybe it got pushed off the front page pretty quickly though.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

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Post by sriramk »

speedracr wrote: post #8

As a non-tech observer, Azure actually struck me as an honest attempt by Microsoft to add a compelling offer to the mix. However, their status page-cum-website seem to be hosted on Azure itself, which is ridiculous in a situation like this. (Almost like Twitter having a status page on tumblr.) Worst of all, even www.twitter.com/windowsazure offers no comment at all so far. Isn't this wiping out any credibility they m…

I don't think that's true. Because I remember giving somebody a lot of pain for exactly that when I worked there. Of course, it might have been gone down for other reasons.
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