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- So that's why I can't check in for my Alaska Airlines flight... https://news.microsoft.com/source/features/digital-transform...by agency
- I am unable to load this article...presumably for related reasons
- Pretty much every single Microsoft domain I've tried to access loads for a looooong time before giving me some bare html. I wonder if someone can explain why that's happening.by Shuddown
- "BREAKING: Alaska Airlines' website, app impacted amid Microsoft Azure outage"by MangoCoffee
- Can't download VSCode :D
Error: visual-studio-code: Download failed on Cask 'visual-studio-code' with message: Download failed: https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.105.1/darwin-arm64/st...
by gianpaj - get vscodium then
- Also cant do anything right now with the repo's we have in Azure Devops, how lovely...by robotnikman
- I have had intermittent issues with winget today. I use UniGetUI for a front-end, and anything tied to Microsoft has failed for me. Judging by the logs, it's mostly retrieving the listing of versions (I assume similar to what 'apt-get update' does, I'm fairly new to using winget for Windows package management).by progmetaldev
- We’re 100% on Azure but so far there’s no impact for us.
Luckily, we moved off Azure Front Door about a year ago. We’d had three major incidents tied to Front Door and stopped treating it as a reliable CDN.
They weren’t global outages, more like issues triggered by new deployments. In one case, our homepage suddenly showed a huge Microsoft banner about a “post-quantum encryption algorithm” or something along those lines.
Kinda wild that a company that big can be so shaky on a CDN, which should be rock solid.
by basfo - We battled https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1331370/... for over a year, and finally decided to move off since there was no any resolution. Unfortunately our API servers were still behind AFD so they were affected by today's stuff...by qiller
- Outages are one thing, but having your content polluted seems like a more serious problem? Unless you subscribed to microsoft banners somehow.by Aperocky
- I’ve been migrating our services off of Azure slowly for the past couple of years. The last internet facing things remaining are a static assets bucket and an analytics VM running Matomo. Working with Front Door has been an abysmal experience, and today was the push I needed to finally migrate our assets to Cloudflare.
I feel pretty justified in my previous decisions to move away from Azure. Using it feels like building on quicksand…
by gmassman - Never let a good disaster go to waste ;)by btmiller
- > I feel pretty justified in my previous decisions to move away from Azure
I felt this way about AWS last week
- All the clouds hav had major outages this year.
At this point I dont believe that any one of them is any better or reliable than the others.
by alt227 - Ouch, and login.microsoftonline.com too - i.e. SSO using MS accounts. We'd just rolled that out across most (all?) of our internal systems...
And microsoft.com too - that's gotta hurt
by kierenj - I am still stunned people choose to do this, considering major Office 365 outages are basically a weekly thing now.by ocdtrekkie
- Guess you have NASSO now (Not A Single Sign On)by manbitesdog
- SSO and 365 are working fine for us, but admin portals for Azure/365 are down. Our workloads in Azure don't seem to be impacted.by parliament32
- It is interesting to see the differential across different tenants in different geographies:
- on a US tenant I am unable to access login.microsoftonline.com and the login flow stalls on any SSO authentication attempt.
- on a European tenant, probably germany-west, I am able to login and access the Azure portal.
by planewave - Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take paymentsby Jamie452
- why tf would a supermarket depend on Azure? Payment processing isn't their thing
- Currently standing in a half closed supermarket because the tills are down and they cant take payments
There's a fairly large supermarket near me that has both kinds of outages.
Occasionally it can't take cards because the (fiber? cable?) internet is down, so it's cash only.
Occasionally it can't take cash because the safe has its own cellular connection, and the cell tower is down.
I was at Frank's Pizza in downtown Houston a few weeks ago and they were giving slices of pizza away because the POS terminal died, and nobody knew enough math to take cash. I tried to give them a $10 and told them to keep the change, but "keep the change" is an unknown phrase these days. They simply couldn't wrap their brains around it. But hey, free pizza!
by reaperducer - Mind-boggling that any retailer would not have the capability to at least run the checkout stations offline.by SoftTalker
- In Germany many stores still accept cash and some even only accept cash and we are ridiculed for this... Seems like one of the rare instances where this is useful :D
- Just to add - this particular supermarket wasn’t fully down, it took ages for them to press “sub total” and then pick the payment method. I suspect it was slow waiting for a request to timeout perhapsby Jamie452
- I remember last mechanical cash registers in my country in 90s and when these got replaced by early electronic ones with blue vacuum fluorescent tubes. Then everything got smaller and smaller. Now I'm pestered to "add the item to the cart" by software.
Last week I couldn't pay for flowers for grandma's grave because smartphone-sized card terminal refused to work - it stuck on charging-booting loop so I had to get cash. Tho my partner thinks she actually wanted to get cash without a receipt for herself excluding taxes
by pndy - There's a Family Dollar by my house that is down at least 2 full days per month because of bad inet connectivity. I live close enough that with a small tower on my roof i can get line of sight to theirs. I've thought about offering them a backup link off my home inet if they give me 50% of sales whenever its in use. It would be a pretty good deal for them, better some sales when their inet is down vs none.by chasd00
- IIRC, the grocery chain I worked for used to have an offline mode to move customers out the door. But it meant that when the system came back online, if the customers card was denied, the customer got free groceries.by david422
- For some reason an Azure outage does not faze me in the same way that an AWS outage does.
I have never had much confidence in Azure as a cloud provider. The vertical integration of all the things for a Microsoft shop was initially very compelling. I was ready to fight that battle. But, this fantasy was quickly ruined by poor execution on Microsoft's part. They were able to convince me to move back to AWS by simply making it difficult to provision compute resources. Their quota system & availability issues are a nightmare to deal with compared to EC2.
At this point I'd rather use GCP over Azure and I have zero seconds of experience with it. The number of things Microsoft gets right in 2025 can be counted single-handedly. The things they do get right are quite good, but everything else tends to be extremely awful.
by bob1029