back to article Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience "intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change. The outage, which began around 2200 UTC on January 8, was "limited to a single zone in the East US 2 region," according to Redmond. "A network …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Snafu...

    "Going unhealthy"...?

    1. diodesign (Written by Reg staff) Silver badge

      Re: Snafu...

      S'wot Microsoft done did wrote.

      C.

      1. sedregj Bronze badge
        Windows

        Re: Snafu...

        They even manage the rather banal: "significant signs of recovery".

        It's always nice to see significant signs of something in a binary system:

        Is the service working or not working?

        Yes ... ish ... or rather no but significantly nearly yes!

        1. matthewcrow

          Re: Snafu...

          Nah. Can work for only a % of requests.

      2. Tron Silver badge

        Re: Snafu...

        Their artificial intelligence has an artificial migraine. Paging Dr. Dobb.

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  2. ecofeco Silver badge
    Facepalm

    You know the drill

    So how's that cloud thing working for ya?

  3. Mostly Irrelevant

    This is exactly the sort of thing people pay Microsoft big bucks to avoid!

    1. Paul Crawford Silver badge

      In many cases they pay $OUTSOURCE to avoid taking responsibility for failure, so when it fails they can point to the SLA and say "Please sir! Those big boys promised me it would be all right!"

      1. dansbar

        Spot on

        This is exactly what motivates people to move workloads in to hyperscalers, shifting of responsibilities. It works too. Sadly.

    2. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

      It's the sort of things they think their big bucks will avoid. Reality is a bitch.

  4. StuartMcL

    Cloud a.k.a. Relying on other people's infrastructure you have no control over and trusting them with your data and applications.

    1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

      And trusting them with your entire business.

      FTFY

  5. Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck

    Incompetence 'R Us.

  6. TJ1
    Joke

    A.Z.U.R.E.

    Absolutely Zero Uptime Reassurance Ever

    Icon-ed as a joke but I'm not so sure now!

  7. harrys Bronze badge

    Gamblers Anonymous!

    redudancy cost, u make ur choice, if ....

    loss of monies during all outages in a 12 month period < cost of redundant systems over the same 12 month period (which can be significant in IT)

    Then your quids in, happy days (allbeit lacking any valus system beyond a monetary one - lots of them about these days)

    Personally, I dont gamble, never bidded on ebay or played the lottery or taken on unecessary debt, gambling rots away at ya

    1. David Hicklin Silver badge

      Re: Gamblers Anonymous!

      You will be amazed how quickly those losses can stack up especially if you are a big corporate when an outage stops production.

  8. GNU Enjoyer
    Angel

    There is no cloud

    It is just someone else's computers and those computers run proprietary software that often fails.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    At least ...

    It is a single zone, so there's that if your workload is super important.

    But yes, the SW glitches seem to be quite often those days on Azure.

  10. G2
    FAIL

    azureedge CDN sudden withdrawal symptoms?

    given the retirement deadline of the azureedge CDN, I think the probable cause of this snafu is the rapid internal changes (a.k.a. not much tested) that MS is required to make in order to extirpate any connections to Edgio.

    quote from the recent Edgio's bankrupcy article here on TheRegister:

    in December, Microsoft was informed that the Edgio platform would end service on January 15, 2025. Worse, the company could not guarantee that Edgio wouldn't suddenly shut down before then.

    /quote

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