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.
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By 2030 AI is gonna completely replace sysadmins a the cause of outages.
All I can say for sure, is that nobody knows for sure.
At the moment, we can only guess. My guess: an update (maybe of a load balancer) went wrong. We will never know for sure.
Info about the root cause: https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/117607080678996785
I’m sure it all came down to poor upper management decisions which they will try to blame on technology
I’m sure the truth will emerge in coming days but was interested in the more tech savy people’s opinione.
Why speculate when you will get it dfrom the horses mouth in a couple days?
But my 2¢ is a bad code being deployed.
Upper management should do things and moves to avoid bad code deploying.
Why should upper manglement have a say in this? They only thing any manglement should say is Yes to a digital twin for a test environment to catch crap like this before it becomes a global outage.
Preventing expensive accidents is a part of survival strategy. Should be interesting topic for any CEO and every level of management. In reality they just hope accidents won’t happen?
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 36
54, 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.
