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Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by imglorp »

xnorswap wrote: post #701
croemer wrote: post #682

Preliminary post incident review: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status/history/ Timeline 15:45 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Customer impact began. 16:04 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Investigation commenced following monitoring alerts being triggered. 16:15 UTC on 29 October 2025 – We began the investigation and started to examine configuration changes within AFD. 16:18 UTC on 29 October 2025 – Initial communication po…

33 minutes from impact to status page for a complete outage is a joke.

That's about how long it took to bubble up three levels of management and then go past the PR and legal teams for approvals.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by amelius »

michaelt wrote: post #713
neya wrote: post #708

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In Microsoft's defense, Azure has always been a complete joke. It's extremely developer unfriendly, buggy and overpriced.

If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)

In commenter's defense, their comment makes no sense.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by nflekkhnnn »

dude250711 wrote: post #727
michaelt wrote: post #713

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you call that defending microsoft, I'd hate to see what attacking them looks like :)

Save it for when they stick Copilot into Azure portal.

Actually one of the inventors of k8s was the project lead for copilot in the azure portal, and deployed it over a year ago.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by dspillett »

jammo wrote: post #747

We all need to move away from these big cloud providers. Two medium size smaller providers is enough. -Cloudflare for R2 (object storage) and CDN (Fastly+backblaze also available). -Two VPS/Server providers with a decent reputation and mid-size (using a comparison site like https://serversearcher.com or look directly into people like Hetzner or latitude) -PlanetScale or Neon for database if you don't co-locate it, th…

> We all need to move away from these big cloud providers.

But then who do we blame when things are down? If we manage our own infrastructure we have to stay late to fix it when it breaks instead of saying “sorry, Microsoft, nothing we can do” and magically our clients accepting that…

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by nflekkhnnn »

antonkochubey wrote: post #545
bpye wrote: post #484

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't used much of GCP, but I have had a good experience with Cloud Run and really haven't found a comparable offering from the other clouds.

Isn’t ECS Fargate pretty much the same thing?

ACI is the corresponding service in our favorite cloud.

Re: Tell HN: Azure outage

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Post by blcknight »

jammo wrote: post #747

We all need to move away from these big cloud providers. Two medium size smaller providers is enough. -Cloudflare for R2 (object storage) and CDN (Fastly+backblaze also available). -Two VPS/Server providers with a decent reputation and mid-size (using a comparison site like https://serversearcher.com or look directly into people like Hetzner or latitude) -PlanetScale or Neon for database if you don't co-locate it, th…

Ah yes, let's put our multibillion dollar ecommerce site on... checks notes Hetzner.

Lol

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