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Anyone think the warnings issued of Russia's cyber attacks has any correlation here?
by zthrowaway 5y ago
Anyone think the warnings issued of Russia's cyber attacks has any correlation here?
- fishnchips 5y agoI'd personally correlate it with their Azure migration. Either that, or recent launches. Stability aside, they've been shipping a lot of changes recently. And more often than not, changes lead to outages.
- JonChesterfield 5y agoSeems likely that migrating to Azure is related to being acquired by Microsoft. I blame the new ownership for the decreased stability.
- pm90 5y agoA migration of that scale is difficult to execute on. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the whole Azure platform, unless it really is something in Azure that's responsible for these outages.
- zthrowaway 5y agoYeah I could see that... with just them going to Azure alone lol. Azure was very unstable at a previous company I was at.
- dgellow 5y agoNo
- time_to_smile 5y agoI would expect any serious Russian cyber attack would more closely resemble "polonium tea" in the sense that it would be: incredibly destructive, quite obviously from a state actor, and yet officially not connectable to Russia. Strategically cyber attacks are the most effective when they damage your adversary heavily, and yet at the same time make it so that politically retaliation looks like aggression since there is no unquestionable link between the actor and the action. Consider Stuxnet as an example. Widely understood to be a joint US/Israeli cyber attack on Iran, and at the same time difficult to retaliate against. While annoying, these outages we've been seeing are hardly doing any serious harm. Very little money is ultimately lost because of them, and it's not remotely clear that this is a cyber attack. So if they were cyber attacks it wouldn't make much sense. Not saying that it's impossible they are, but it seems there are many other more plausible explainations.