Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by paulcjh » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 3:37 PM UTC

Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage
bbc.co.uk

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by gchamonlive » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 3:55 PM UTC

Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by TonyTrapp » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:01 PM UTC

gchamonlive wrote: post #2

Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?

There's not a single mention of Windows in the article. It rather sounds like a service issue?

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:02 PM UTC

gchamonlive wrote: post #2

Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?

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Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by duncans » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:03 PM UTC

gchamonlive wrote: post #2

Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?

It was Azure Front Door: their reverse-proxy/CDN service. I doubt it's running on Windows.

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by phyzix5761 » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:05 PM UTC

Time to introduce our friends and relatives to Linux

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Post by awill » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:06 PM UTC

I've always wondered how much of Azure is built on Windows Server (and .NET) vs Linux plus open source languages.

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Post by vel0city » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:06 PM UTC

gchamonlive wrote: post #2

Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble, or is Microsoft really going downhill?

> The culprit appears to be network infrastructure

Not a lot of the network infrastructure runs on Windows. From previous public statements and information out there, most of Azure's network stack is Linux-based.

> Am I suffering from confirmation bias from HN bubble

Yes.

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by vel0city » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:07 PM UTC

awill wrote: post #7

I've always wondered how much of Azure is built on Windows Server (and .NET) vs Linux plus open source languages.

From 2019:

> It's not just Microsoft's Azure customers who are turning to Linux. Guthrie explained, "Native Azure services are often running on Linux. Microsoft is building more of these services. For example, Azure's Software Defined Network (SDN) is based on Linux."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-developer-reveals-li...

Re: Microsoft apologises after thousands report new outage

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Post by vel0city » Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 4:08 PM UTC

phyzix5761 wrote: post #6

Time to introduce our friends and relatives to Linux

The platform affected was likely running Linux.