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Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#52

What's the point of having a status page if it doesn't indicate the issues? https://status.azure.com/en-us/status Azure, Teams, Outlook are almost down from Greece and Germany, and their status page shows that everything is fine :-)

It's updated now - updates for service outages at this level generally need signoff form someone higher up the chain

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#53

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> I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve I guess many developers do not use Azure voluntarily but are forced to by their companies (or customers).

And the companies are forced to due to huge contracts with Microsoft

Nothing is forcing companies to sign an Azure contract with Microsoft, and go with AWS or GCP instead. Perhaps they are just doing something right. But I didn't use Azure myself. I'd be curious to know what's good or bad about it compared to GCP and AWS.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#54

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I'm so surprised by MS's strategy for using random domains and TLD's, this certainly don't make it easy for phishing avoidance.

If you implement an allowlisting proxy, the number of required domains for M365 / Azure is something like 120 [1]. Google basically requires three, tunnel.cloudproxy.app, *.google.com and *.googleapis.com. Amazon requires *.aws.amazon.com, *.amazonaws.com, *.awsstatic.com, *.api.aws and *.aws.dev. Microsoft has some great domain planning. [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/enterprise/u...

My point is MS uses a lot of unrelated domains that are very different from the main brand, even the one above looks dodgy (msft[.]it) From your list, microsoftonline-p[.]com is an official domain, but it looks like a typosquat. I think it's quite far from "great domain planning".

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#57

Azure is the most developer hostile cloud environment. I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve. Sorry for being so miserable, but Azure has given me soooo much grief over the last 10 years that I'm just completely done with this shitshow of a platform.

One word: compliance.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#59

Azure is the most developer hostile cloud environment. I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve. Sorry for being so miserable, but Azure has given me soooo much grief over the last 10 years that I'm just completely done with this shitshow of a platform.

Migrating stuff off it now to AWS (not my stuff). Couldn't agree more. Total shit show.

Re: Microsoft Azure Outage

#60

Azure is the most developer hostile cloud environment. I have zero sympathy for people being affected by this because if you voluntarily use Azure then this is what you deserve. Sorry for being so miserable, but Azure has given me soooo much grief over the last 10 years that I'm just completely done with this shitshow of a platform.

Ive used gcp and ive been billed like 10% of minimal wage for setting GCPs demo with like 7 very simple microservices (i dont remember exactly) 4 times and every of them was running like 5 minutes after being deployed and then project was killed Shit is expensive as hell For the same money I could rent some weak linux box for a year Or something decent for a month Edit 10ms https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/micr…

I have to wonder what you were doing, I've been continuously hosting my own projects there for years and with the free tier they cost pennies per month to run.
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