Microsoft admits pandemic caused Azure ‘constraints’ and backlog of customer quota requests Microsoft has admitted that some Azure regions have experienced coronavirus-triggered capacity constraints, and customers haven’t been able to get all the cloud they want. In an update for Azure customers today, Microsoft explained that “in any particular Azure region we ensure a near-instant capacity buffer within the …
Meetings are apparently supposed to sound like a herd of goats bleating plaintively for help from down the bottom of a well, and that's with the video disabled. (Of course, the video disabled option doesn't work on shared desktops because that would be too useful.)
My ISP doesn't have problems with anything else, just fucking Teams. But, as we all know, marketing have said any problems are now fixed so it's not a problem.
There are, of course, no useful bandwidth or network settings in the client because that might indicate there could be problems.
I'm afraid poor Teams performance for you is probably due to my children, after the school set it up for them to use. The 6 year old likes show his friends the screen when he is playing some sort of Minecraft spinoff on his tablet, and the 4 year old's friend likes to manically run around with her mum's phone, showing him the entire house right down to the insides of the toilet bowl. I have to say the video quality has been superb, just when you could do with a bit of pixelation - in both cases.
Yesterday I couldn't see any attached images in Teams discussions. They all showed the "broken link" icon instead.
Even the ones I attached, which was very odd.
Some discussions only showed posts that had a reply that day, everything that had been written two days before was gone...
Yet it worked in Chrome.
Makes me wonder what kind of local caching algorithm Electron uses. Is it perhaps None At All?
That's not going to help keep Azure running, is it?
I've heard reports of AWS problems too. To be fair it's probably cyclci, they buy a load of new hardware for a year's growth and if the criss happens to fall before that new hardware has really been used then no-one notices.... if the crisis falls when there's not much spare capacity....
It's not magic :-)
No, Zoom is on AWS. Along with Slack, Netflix, Reddit and a whole bunch of other websites that usage will have gone through the roof. But seems to me that AWS seems to take it in its stride.
https://promarket.org/zoom-netflix-slack-amazon-is-behind-all-the-services-we-use-to-work-from-home-and-thats-a-problem/
"I've heard reports of AWS problems too. To be fair it's probably cyclic,"
I havent heard this, as above - AWS seems reliable compared to Azure.
If it was only teams, how come customers are being told that they can’t start VM's that have nothing to do with Teams?
Because they're prioritising their Teams land grab over their customers.
And how come AWS can handle massive serge in Zoom usage, but Microsoft can’t handle teams?
Because AWS isn't punching above its weight. They make huge scalable platforms, not corporate solutions disguised as platforms.
I have been impressed for the most part in how well the sudden growth in demand has been handled.
If you think about what is actually happening, with everyone at home, it is pretty amazing.
I wonder if we were able to run an experiment of doing this each year in the past, when it would fail. I'm guessing not very far back in time.
The one thing that no-one seems to be talking about is that it appears that Microsoft decided to unilaterally divert Azure capacity to one of their own services over meeting increased capacity requirements for their customers. We'll never know the criticality of the quota requests that were turned down, but were they all less important than e.g. not turning down the Teams video encoding quality/resolution knob?
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