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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by UltraSane on Thursday November 12, 2026 @10:06PM (#50477641)
The best defense against cascading failures is limiting the blast radius, which is something AWS seems to do well but Azure does not.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by dboreham on Thursday November 12, 2026 @11:27PM (#50478331)
From this we can tell where Jim Roskind works.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by sire-vc on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:44AM (#50482138)
How did that AWS DNS incident go recently? Unplanned outages are unfortunate but common, and hubris is the problem when everyone assumes that they (or their pet vendor) are immune.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by venzaspa on Friday November 13, 2026 @07:00AM (#50482278)
Exchange Online and Microsoft 365 in general doesn't run on Azure.
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