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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by ma2rten on Sunday March 29, 2020 @06:29PM (#22723377)
My theory is that Amazon and Google are more prepared to handle surges because they run some of the largest web properties.

This like every day is Black Friday for Amazon. It's rough, but not something they have never dealt with before.

Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by leesalminen on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:31PM (#22723726)
GCP and GSuite had outages this week listed on their status pages.

AWS has been rock solid for us in the 3 regions we operate in.

Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by dodobirdlord on Sunday March 29, 2020 @07:59PM (#22723893)
The GCP outages don't seem to have been capacity related though, they were both networking issues. In one of them they broke their traffic routing to a datacenter in Atlanta, and in the other one an unnamed cloud provider (that pretty much has to be AWS) broke inbound inter-cloud traffic in us-east1 (so presumably AWS borked the link from Google's us-east1 to AWS us-east-1). These seem like normal sorts of cloud issues that happen to coincide with covid-19.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by pjscott on Sunday March 29, 2020 @09:07PM (#22724305)
If anybody at AWS is reading this: congratulations! Thank you! Keeping infrastructure running is hard in the best of times, and these times definitely are not the best.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by bmurphy1976 on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:08PM (#22730525)
We've anecdotally seen a huge increase in spot market flakiness, but basic functionality and reserved instances have been solid.
Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by traskjd on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:10AM (#22726124)
"This like every day is Black Friday for Amazon."

So, a pretty big deal then: https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577654/amazon-prime-day...