folks,i know this is OT but i decided to post here as i’m sure there are a lot of people here that work in IT and know what thay are talking about. The recent MS failure is what i would like your opinion on.

from what I’ve seen, MS declared that a bunch of servers went offline and the load had to be spread on remaining servers. They fail to identify what caused the first bunch of servers encountering issues and they claim it was mot related to a hacker attack (why would they, it would lead to massive panic and distrust). So, then what caused the issue in the first place? Could it have been a piloted denail of service attack?

I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione. In the meantime i rejoyce for not having to depend of third party infrastructure at home, thanks to my little homelab.

A further consideration is that this does once again prove that companies that put all their eggs in one basket, are at yhe mercy of big tech. i experienced this personally at works where comunication by Teams and Outlooks was pretty much halted for hours.

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    12 hours ago

    There’s been rumours about insufficient capacity on Microsoft cloud services around Europe for a while. Unofficial of course, and who knows how many “broken phones” has been on the chain before me, so don’t take that as a fact. However, Microsoft stated that the problem started when they increased capacity, so maybe some initial synchronization or load balancing starting up caused extra load on the servers already running on pretty much full load and caused cascading failure.

    Of course I don’t know for sure and I don’t expect we’ll get a full technical brief with details and the main reason is management problems no matter what’s the technical cause. I hope at least someone wearing a suit starts to think that maybe cloud isn’t really the answer to everything. And it’s not just 3654, a shit ton of different cloud services relies on AWS, Cloudflare and other players and if any of those goes down they’ll take considerable chunk of business critical infrastructure with them.

    • False@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Have heard similar rumor about capacity. And yes, MS seems to be especially bad about chasing AI at the expense of their core products.

      • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        5 hours ago

        No, I’ve heard about those either in person or via chat with coworkers and colleaques who have heard those from who knows where. That’s why I underlined that they’re only rumours and nothing more.