Posted by tartieret 10/29/2025
Tell HN: Azure outage
So if we look at these companies' bottom lines, all those big wigs are actually doing something right. Sales and lobbying capacity is way more effective than reliability or good engineering (at least in the short term).
You know nobody is migrating off of AWS or Azure because of these.
That's certainly not the right conclusion.
I guess the GCP is next.
Oh, that'll be why Scan & Go was down yesterday evening. I thought it was another instance of an iOS 26 update breaking their crappy code.
[0] https://corporate.asda.com/newsroom/2025/22/09/asda-announce...
Much of Xbox is behind that too.
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I have been having issues with GitHub and the winget tool for updates throughout the day as well. I imagine things are pulling from the same locations on Azure for some of the software I needed to update (NPM dependencies, and some .NET tooling).
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Be interesting to understand cause here. Pretty big impact on services we use