Looks to be a global outage across Americas, Europe, APAC, and Africa. Office 365 is still up for us, but colleagues are saying theirs is down as well.
Honestly, I can't think of a single reason why I would recommend them over anyone else at this point, no matter what your hosting or storage or computing needs were. Can't see a single area where they are better than the competition.
We used to use AWS and had issues a lot. I've seen global GCS outrages. Today we were effected be the Azure outage, but only for about 15 minutes.
In any case, I think you are right that apples-to-apples for most things they generally shake out the same in theory.
Azure is a freaking mess. If it hadn't been Microsoft we were selling to, we'd have never used it.
Seems like they have tons of global dependencies within their services which cause these cascading failures rather often... Seems like only a few months ago we were reading about a global outage that affected auth?
Tho for w/e reason i cannot convince higher ups, that the switch was a stupid idea. But hey! We got some credits to spend in Azure to compensate. (Too bad we had to pay our clients with real cash)
I'm exaggerating, of course, but from my POV Azure looks subsidised.
They had cooling issues at one of their data centers that took most of South Central off line for hours to days, depending on the services you were using
* Azure: 12 user-facing outages this year so far. source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/history/
* Amazon: They don't make their status history public it seems, but I see 5 easily searchable outages from last year. I would venture to bet their actual outage history is not any better than Azure or Google.
* Google: 23 from this year so far source: https://status.cloud.google.com/summary
These numbers are from when I counted in March 2019, so ~ 3 months, their outages are in double digits. That's TERRIBLE.
Obviously the above numbers are not across _all_ regions, they are just a total count across all regions.
AWS AZs on the other hand are always geographically separated, and they even take into consideration the landscape to see if they need to be further away (earthquakes etc).
It’s staggering how much of a lead AWS has on others when in comes to their AZs and global network infrastructure.
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: No such host is knownThis isn’t “legacy” code that has migrated from cobol to vb to c#, this is modern code and to suffer this bs time and time again is unforgivable
We SE keep whining about legacy code but forget that they made it to legacy for a reason...
You could say certain failures only occur and cascade under Special Circumstances. :)
That said, I'm not sure this would have helped in this case. It seems like some or all of the problem was internal Azure zones were failing to resolve. Which no third party DNS provider would be able to mitigate.
Looks like all three major cloud platforms are experiencing problems right now. Could be internet related?
https://downdetector.com/status/windows-azure
Our customer was bashing us if they were unable to use our product for several minutes but when Azure was down for a day there were no complaints to Microsoft. (they were hosting our product at Azure)
I don't understand their love of Microsoft. I guess because they have Microsoft certificates like generals have.
The entire "heres free ELA credits for Azure, please please Mr Sr Director/CIO use Azure" seems to be working, but then they go and do stuff like this.