Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down in Microsoft global outage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo
Posted by Alert-One-Two
Heathrow, NatWest and Minecraft sites down in Microsoft global outage
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo
Posted by Alert-One-Two
5 Comments
Aws outage a week ago. Now a Microsoft outage and apparently another aws outage today? What’s going on?
How will I book a flight, withdraw cash, and ummm, craft a mine now?
It’s almost as though outsourcing all your important IT infrastructure to one of 4 companies is a bad idea.
Anyone remember SideKick/Danger Inc (M$) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger,_Inc.#October_2009_data_loss
All of your eggs, in a single basket, in the cloud!
Or put another way, all of your eggs, running on someone else’s computers, in a data center ran by someone else, running services coded by a team that’s been reduced by 40% over the last 5 years, propped up by LLM generated code, and not a QA team in sight.