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!

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? 👀

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

Das war mit #Multicloud nicht gemeint. 🫠

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/aws-outage-october-2025

#Azure

Oh schön, nach 4 Stunden merkt es auch die Presse 😬

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo

#azure

Das war mit #Multicloud nicht gemeint. 🫠

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/aws-outage-october-2025

#Azure

Oh schön, nach 4 Stunden merkt es auch die Presse 😬

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo

#azure

With #Azure down this time, instead of #AWS. Seems like a good time to reiterate that #SelfHosting is easy!
https://firesphere.dev/articles/self-hosting-is-easy?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

With #Azure down this time, instead of #AWS. Seems like a good time to reiterate that #SelfHosting is easy!
https://firesphere.dev/articles/self-hosting-is-easy?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon

Amazon AWS down last week. Microsoft Azure down this week. Major disruption to websites and apps. Whose turn is it next week? Are we getting the hint yet? Centralized internet infrastructure controlled by Big Tech is not working for us. We need to decentralize, both as individuals and organizations. And we need to do it ASAP.

#Microsoft #Azure #Amazon #AWS #BigTech #Google #Apple #Meta #Tech #Technology

Amazon AWS down last week. Microsoft Azure down this week. Major disruption to websites and apps. Whose turn is it next week? Are we getting the hint yet? Centralized internet infrastructure controlled by Big Tech is not working for us. We need to decentralize, both as individuals and organizations. And we need to do it ASAP.

#Microsoft #Azure #Amazon #AWS #BigTech #Google #Apple #Meta #Tech #Technology

Looks like it is another International Smug Self-Hosters Day.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Very soon greetings card companies will realise this is a thing. People will start decorating their houses and inviting family members over for a big meal - less out of celebration, more for something to do.

#SelfHosting #azure

Looks like it is another International Smug Self-Hosters Day.

https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status

Very soon greetings card companies will realise this is a thing. People will start decorating their houses and inviting family members over for a big meal - less out of celebration, more for something to do.

#SelfHosting #azure

OpenAI vale 500 mil milhões de dólares e abre caminho para a bolsa com novo acordo da Microsoft
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t73493-openai-vale-500-mil-milhoes-de-dolares-e-abre-caminho-para-a-bolsa-com-novo-acordo-da-microsoft

#AGI #apple #azure #blog #ChatGPT #hardware #microsoft #mundo #OpenAI #sem 

OpenAI vale 500 mil milhões de dólares e abre caminho para a bolsa com novo acordo da Microsoft
🔗 https://tugatech.com.pt/t73493-openai-vale-500-mil-milhoes-de-dolares-e-abre-caminho-para-a-bolsa-com-novo-acordo-da-microsoft

#AGI #apple #azure #blog #ChatGPT #hardware #microsoft #mundo #OpenAI #sem