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Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?

by MiroF 7y ago

coldpie 7y ago
Here in Minnesota, several coworkers and I are having trouble with our ISP. And a website we host is (apparently) being DDoSed. And now GitHub's down, and you're reporting some Azure issue. Is something going on...?
- snazz 7y ago
  No, I don't think so (and I'm also in Minnesota). I'm going to guess that the increased load is just pushing services over the edge. Edit: Also, interestingly enough, I am now reliably hitting Cloudflare's ORD (Chicago) datacenter instead of MSP. If you visit https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace (or any other Cloudflare-backed website), what comes after the COLO= for you?
  - coldpie 7y ago
    STL! Ha. Wonder what's going on. I'm on CenturyLink here in the Twin Cities.
    - snazz 7y ago
      Yeah, that is strange. I’m on Comcast. They’re probably just attempting to reroute traffic to higher-capacity links at the expense of latency.
  - lame-robot-hoax 7y ago
    Getting rerouted to ORD instead of DEN as well. Coworkers have been complaining about slow internet all day, there’s been customer complaints about slow load times with our products as well.
  - judge2020 7y ago
    You can test Cloudflare at https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/#snazz.xyz https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/#snazz.xyz
    - snazz 7y ago
      So ORD is probably just higher-capacity, which is why free plan users like me are getting routed to it?
      - judge2020 7y ago
        Most likely, the other/normal DC is likely either overloaded or has part of its hardware under maintenance.
- user5994461 7y ago
  Also having erratic few minutes outage from my ISP in the UK, which never happened for years. Global network issue somewhere?
- johns 7y ago
  Also having issues with CenturyLink fiber at home in MN. Stuff is very slow today.
dx034 7y ago
Or their data centers are just full. Teams had a tremendous growth, so did their O365 suite and probably also Azure itself. At some point even the largest vendors run out of servers.
- beamatronic 7y ago
  I had never heard of Microsoft Teams until yesterday when I saw it on a TV commercial.
  - mbreese 7y ago
    For companies that live on Office 365, it is very popular. With COVID-19, it became a very quick add-on for groups that were already in the O365 ecosystem to add group chat functionality, pretty much with a few clicks. My son’s school was using it before they went remote, but now their usage has increased dramatically.
    - japhyr 7y ago
      I wonder how much the load will change once schools close for the summer. All of these attempts at remote teaching and learning will stop over a period of several weeks, and I imagine a large amount of capacity will be available again for a while?
davidgl 7y ago
They posted a warning that the uptick in Teams usage and general cloud use has meant they have much less spare capacity - see 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...
- MiroF 7y ago
  Sure, just anecdotally this is my first time running into this so it might be that capacity issues are particularly acute right now. Even that article states that there hadn't been any service disruptions in the US up to now, but I am certainly experiencing it now.

Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?

by MiroF 7y ago

Azure is also refusing to allocate me capacity - I'm wondering if this is a general MSFT outage?

Here in Minnesota, several coworkers and I are having trouble with our ISP. And a website we host is (apparently) being DDoSed. And now GitHub's down, and you're reporting some Azure issue. Is something going on...?

snazz 7y ago
No, I don't think so (and I'm also in Minnesota). I'm going to guess that the increased load is just pushing services over the edge. Edit: Also, interestingly enough, I am now reliably hitting Cloudflare's ORD (Chicago) datacenter instead of MSP. If you visit https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace https://snazz.xyz/cdn-cgi/trace (or any other Cloudflare-backed website), what comes after the COLO= for you?
- coldpie 7y ago
  STL! Ha. Wonder what's going on. I'm on CenturyLink here in the Twin Cities.
  - snazz 7y ago
    Yeah, that is strange. I’m on Comcast. They’re probably just attempting to reroute traffic to higher-capacity links at the expense of latency.
- lame-robot-hoax 7y ago
  Getting rerouted to ORD instead of DEN as well. Coworkers have been complaining about slow internet all day, there’s been customer complaints about slow load times with our products as well.
- judge2020 7y ago
  You can test Cloudflare at https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/#snazz.xyz https://cloudflare-test.judge.sh/#snazz.xyz
  - snazz 7y ago
    So ORD is probably just higher-capacity, which is why free plan users like me are getting routed to it?
    - judge2020 7y ago
      Most likely, the other/normal DC is likely either overloaded or has part of its hardware under maintenance.
user5994461 7y ago
Also having erratic few minutes outage from my ISP in the UK, which never happened for years. Global network issue somewhere?
johns 7y ago
Also having issues with CenturyLink fiber at home in MN. Stuff is very slow today.

dx034 7y ago

Or their data centers are just full. Teams had a tremendous growth, so did their O365 suite and probably also Azure itself. At some point even the largest vendors run out of servers.

beamatronic 7y ago
I had never heard of Microsoft Teams until yesterday when I saw it on a TV commercial.
- mbreese 7y ago
  For companies that live on Office 365, it is very popular. With COVID-19, it became a very quick add-on for groups that were already in the O365 ecosystem to add group chat functionality, pretty much with a few clicks. My son’s school was using it before they went remote, but now their usage has increased dramatically.
  - japhyr 7y ago
    I wonder how much the load will change once schools close for the summer. All of these attempts at remote teaching and learning will stop over a period of several weeks, and I imagine a large amount of capacity will be available again for a while?

davidgl 7y ago

They posted a warning that the uptick in Teams usage and general cloud use has meant they have much less spare capacity - see 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...

MiroF 7y ago
Sure, just anecdotally this is my first time running into this so it might be that capacity issues are particularly acute right now. Even that article states that there hadn't been any service disruptions in the US up to now, but I am certainly experiencing it now.