You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
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Oh don't worry, Azure is not having a *global* outage, just a "non-regional" one.
If you're a journalist writing about this Azure outage, don't forget to ask Microsoft how much of their code is "AI-generated".
Satya Nadella claims 30%:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.html -
If you're a journalist writing about this Azure outage, don't forget to ask Microsoft how much of their code is "AI-generated".
Satya Nadella claims 30%:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/satya-nadella-says-as-much-as-30percent-of-microsoft-code-is-written-by-ai.htmlMicrosoft Azuren't
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You will not believe the trick-or-treat trick Microsoft just pulled!
@rysiek the robots support #GeneralStrike
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Choose your fighter!
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> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
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> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/ -
> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
@rysiek Next time it’ll be an advertent change, just to keep it fresh.
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Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/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-row -
Look, this is the level of professionalism we should expect of Microsoft at this point.
They had a separate global outage of Office 365 (or whatever it's called this week) *this month* already:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-365-outage-blocks-access-to-teams-exchange-online/And then there was the one from February this year:
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/03/01/microsoft-outages/3061740867107/Not to mention smaller ones, like the one in US-East that prevented admins from accessing the admin center:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-investigates-outage-affecting-microsoft-365-admin-center/"or whatever it's called this week":
They should at least reduce the "365" by one, for every outage.
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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.
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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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Grazie ho letto la prima parte, spiegazione molto interessante, mi sono venuti dei dubbi, magari mi si chiariranno leggendo il resto.
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