Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud

Post by blaser-waffle » Fri, Apr 03, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

lostmsu wrote: post #38

btilly wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are judging by what actions you were taking to make things better. Everyone else judges by what results they see. Based on my experience, Azure is not as good at AWS and Google at actually keeping things up and running when the shit hits the fan. And AWS is not as good as Google. (That said, AWS exposes a lot more to customers than Google does. Google may stay up, but I prefer running software in the AWS cloud.)…

Google? Did not they have a multi-hour outage just a few days ago?

Yeah. Close to 12 hours. Router issue which broke a lot of stuff.

Ugly, but transparent compared to AWS.

Post by JeremyNT » Sat, Apr 04, 2020, 1:49 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #30

luhn wrote: post #2

> One misleading headline that’s been pushed out by Microsoft and unfortunately picked up by various tech media outlets, is the “775% increase” in Azure cloud service usage in geographical areas that are most committed to some form of social distancing or shelter-in-place policy. It's way worse than that. The original statement: > We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced…

This "single feature" is video-conference and is used by almost every Office 365 business customer. In chat propositions, it's Slacks biggest competitor. There is no feature bigger in bandwidth than this one. I believe the numbers are similar in Europe. By reference, I think it's similar as having a Netflix business appear from nowhere.

But is this a feature many actually used before? If it was used e.e. 10 hours prior and now 7.75 hours, it's insignificant.

A percent increase is a meaningless metric without the baseline. If it's "all azure" then we immediately know it's a huge increase! But if it's just a possibly seldom used feature it's minimal.

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