You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
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@mms Downdetector-dot-com is crowdsourced I believe, and my hot-take-hypothesis at this point is that a lot of services rely on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure all at the same time, and when one goes down, these services go down as well.
From there it's easy for folks to make incorrect assumptions.
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I wonder if firing 15.000+ employees just this year had any impact here.
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-continues-layoffs-with-42-more-roles-cut-for-the-fifth-month-in-a-rowWhile Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft gloated about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xboxAfter all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-365-gets-massive-45-percent-price-hike-and-its-all-to-do-with-ai-tools
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/upcoming-changes-office-365-g1-price-increase-effective-march-2025/4385970Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave.
Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work!
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While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft gloated about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xboxAfter all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months:
https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/microsoft-365-gets-massive-45-percent-price-hike-and-its-all-to-do-with-ai-tools
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/publicsectorblog/upcoming-changes-office-365-g1-price-increase-effective-march-2025/4385970Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave.
Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work!
Two price hikes, three major outages…
Microsoft will have to hike the price again just to keep the ratio at 1:1!
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Two price hikes, three major outages…
Microsoft will have to hike the price again just to keep the ratio at 1:1!
This might be a good time to consider deploying, contributing to or otherwise supporting @nextcloud:
https://nextcloud.com/And before anyone says that Nextcloud's UI/UX is lacking: of course it is! Nextcloud has several orders of magnitude less money to throw at UI/UX.
But guess what:
1. this is fixable if they get more resources to work with;
2. every single Nextcloud instance I know of or use (there are many) stayed up and running yesterday.
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This might be a good time to consider deploying, contributing to or otherwise supporting @nextcloud:
https://nextcloud.com/And before anyone says that Nextcloud's UI/UX is lacking: of course it is! Nextcloud has several orders of magnitude less money to throw at UI/UX.
But guess what:
1. this is fixable if they get more resources to work with;
2. every single Nextcloud instance I know of or use (there are many) stayed up and running yesterday. Cascading failure. It cascaded.
> As unhealthy nodes dropped out of the global pool, traffic distribution across healthy nodes became imbalanced, amplifying the impact and causing intermittent availability even for regions that were partially healthy.
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/#incident-history-collapse-YKYN-BWZ -
Cascading failure. It cascaded.
> As unhealthy nodes dropped out of the global pool, traffic distribution across healthy nodes became imbalanced, amplifying the impact and causing intermittent availability even for regions that were partially healthy.
https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status/history/#incident-history-collapse-YKYN-BWZ> An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption…
> The trigger was traced to a faulty tenant configuration deployment process. Our protection mechanisms, to validate and block any erroneous deployments, failed due to a software defect which allowed the deployment to bypass safety validations.
Am I reading this right? Global – pardon, "non-regional" – #outage of #Microsoft #Azure was caused by a tenant changing their config? 👀
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> An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption…
> The trigger was traced to a faulty tenant configuration deployment process. Our protection mechanisms, to validate and block any erroneous deployments, failed due to a software defect which allowed the deployment to bypass safety validations.
Am I reading this right? Global – pardon, "non-regional" – #outage of #Microsoft #Azure was caused by a tenant changing their config? 👀
Can't have a snow day without cloud. 🌨️
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Can't have a snow day without cloud. 🌨️
These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_AccidentsAny system that:
- is complex,
- is tightly coupled, and
- has catastrophic potential…can be expected to experience catastrophic failures. AWS, Google Cloud, #Microsoft #Azure check all these boxes.
Fun fact: Internet was specifically designed to *not* be like that. It was designed to be loosely coupled.
But that's not as good for maximizing shareholder value!
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> An inadvertent tenant configuration change within Azure Front Door (AFD) triggered a widespread service disruption…
> The trigger was traced to a faulty tenant configuration deployment process. Our protection mechanisms, to validate and block any erroneous deployments, failed due to a software defect which allowed the deployment to bypass safety validations.
Am I reading this right? Global – pardon, "non-regional" – #outage of #Microsoft #Azure was caused by a tenant changing their config? 👀
@rysiek software defect
I think it was any tenant change by my reading not one single idiot. They're not pinning this on tenants users but it is written that way so you can misinterpret it that way and blame Microsoft less
Software defect is there to point at that they didn't blame anyone they blamed the software
They're shying away from blaming skynet so it doesn't fire them next -
These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_AccidentsAny system that:
- is complex,
- is tightly coupled, and
- has catastrophic potential…can be expected to experience catastrophic failures. AWS, Google Cloud, #Microsoft #Azure check all these boxes.
Fun fact: Internet was specifically designed to *not* be like that. It was designed to be loosely coupled.
But that's not as good for maximizing shareholder value!
@rysiek I know I'm only an average 'in the trench' type developer, and my interests have always been code over servers/hosting........
But I cannot express how much I miss the "old days" of normal web-servers and where focus was on delivery of (customer/user) value and optimisations and not just bloating everything with external services sold into a cloak of 'critical infrastructure' and 'pass/sass' cloud stuff.
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@rysiek software defect
I think it was any tenant change by my reading not one single idiot. They're not pinning this on tenants users but it is written that way so you can misinterpret it that way and blame Microsoft less
Software defect is there to point at that they didn't blame anyone they blamed the software
They're shying away from blaming skynet so it doesn't fire them nextNo matter how you slice it, as I see it, it boils down to: Microsoft's software did insufficient input validation on untrusted data (specifically in this case configuration changes for one customer, it seems), and this led to widespread outages affecting many, many, *many* customers in many different ways.
Security done properly should not rely on "blocking erroneous" stuff, but should verify that everything is good and only *if* that succeeds allow any of it through.
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@Televideo_bot ricorderei al ministro che come il diritto internazionale anche l'Iran ha missili e i droni a non finire,ma fino ad un certo punto!🤡
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Hopelessly privileged, but there needs to be an escape hatch for inherited footwear of which I have two pairs, one of which are ancient.
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@MissAemilia hard pass
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@aeva but imagine if you had nvidia generate enhanced frames for you. You could sacrifice significant amounts of frame time to have them yassify your car for you at 240 totally real hz!
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if i ever finish my racing game, the pitch practically writes itself. 4k 120 hz clean frames on most hardware, no bullshit.
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Current* conditions near Chicago, IL:
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@evan Depends what you mean by "shoes". I have different footwear for different purposes, but only one pair of each.
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You hear an angry drone.
