These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

Any 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!

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

#Outage #Azure #Microsoft

While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft was gloating about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xbox

After all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months, massively:
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-2025/4385970

Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave. :blobcatpeek:

Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work! :blobcatcoffee:

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage

These massive "cloud" outages will continue to happen, inevitably, because they are "normal accidents":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_Accidents

Any 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!

> 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? 👀

> 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? 👀

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

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage

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.

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage

While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft was gloating about record profits:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/29/microsoft-earnings-azure-outage-xbox

After all, Office 365 price has increased at least twice over the last 12 months, massively:
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-2025/4385970

Price hikes were due to "AI", obviously. It's what users crave. :blobcatpeek:

Your Microsoft Tax dollars at work! :blobcatcoffee:

#Microsoft #Azure #Outage