<story><title>Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/covid-19-stress-tests-cloud-azure-aws/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>godtoldmetodoit</author><text>&amp;gt; Since Microsoft’s other businesses are either hardware or office software, with the exception of maybe XBox’s gaming, it generally lacks operational experience in running “always on” services and preparing for unanticipated traffic surges.&lt;p&gt;Uh, as a former Microsoft equivalent of a SRE this is a utterly ridiculous statement.&lt;p&gt;I was in the Windows division on a team handling all the incoming telemetry - we definitely knew how to prepare for traffic surges and keep our services &amp;quot;always on&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Has the author never seen Office 365? Bing? The entirety of Azure in general that has dozens if not hundreds of publicly facing always on services?</text></comment>
<story><title>Azure cracks, AWS strong: Covid-19 stress-tests the cloud</title><url>https://interconnected.blog/covid-19-stress-tests-cloud-azure-aws/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luhn</author><text>&amp;gt; One misleading headline that’s been pushed out by Microsoft and unfortunately picked up by various tech media outlets, is the “775% increase” in Azure cloud service usage in geographical areas that are most committed to some form of social distancing or shelter-in-place policy.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s way worse than that.  The original statement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We have seen a 775 percent increase of our cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or shelter in place orders&lt;p&gt;The updated statement:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We have seen a 775 percent increase in Teams&amp;#x27; calling and meeting monthly users in a one month period in Italy, where social distancing or shelter in place orders have been enforced.&lt;p&gt;Somehow an increase in usage of a single feature of a single product in a single country was miscommunicated as an increase in demand for all of Azure&amp;#x27;s cloud services.  Microsoft&amp;#x27;s PR team royally screwed up on this one.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;update-2-on-microsoft-cloud-services-continuity&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;azure.microsoft.com&amp;#x2F;en-us&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;update-2-on-microsoft...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>