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The Microsoft blog post that the article is using as a source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/ https://a
by spencerwgreene 7y ago
The Microsoft blog post that the article is using as a source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/update-2-on-microsoft....
- enlyth 7y agoAfter reading this, it seems the headline is a bit misleading. The Microsoft blog post states: "We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders." So it's not an overall increase, just in certain regions?
- loeg 7y agoA lot of the value of hyperscaler clouds is the lowish latency local datacenters. Also, everywhere's going to have enforced S.D. or S.I.P. sooner or later.
- ineedasername 7y agoYes, and they also say that if you're hitting quotas, you can try another less congested region. If you have established workloads in a region though, I'm not sure how quickly you can migrate a complex interplay of services to another region-- are there simple tools to do so in Azure?
- bowmessage 7y agohopefully you are writing infrastructure as code - would be easy then.
- wutwutwutwut 7y agoFor toy projects, sure.
- mr_toad 7y agoI doubt they’re talking about their compute services. The increases are more likely in Microsoft teams and Office 365. And as far as I know you can’t choose a region for those services.
- rsynnott 7y agoThose ‘certain regions’ would be most of the world, though, presumably.
- dang 7y agoOk, we've taken 775% out of the title above.