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The only thing that’s down is Azure Active Directory. If you’re not using that product, everything is working fine.

This is more like Amazon’s IAM product being down than AWS as a whole.

Doesn't pretty much everything depend on IAM to know what it's allowed to do? I suppose if you had stuff already running then it might be able to keep going on cached authorizations, but that still sounds likely to cause a lot of problems.

yeah, i think the comprable product here is aws cognito, not IAM.

except that's not really comprable either, because Azure AD is actually pretty broadly used.

Yeah it's only a bit like that, in that AAD does identity stuff. It's way way way less critical than IAM though.

The comparison wasn't very good. You can have access control in Azure without AAD.

Amazon IAM being down brings down 95% of AWS.

Also including the status website IIRC

This has brought down Outlook as well, which as far as I understand is the most important offering of Microsoft's cloud services nowadays.

Probably their most important consumer and b2b off the shelf cloud service, yeah, but when people talk about Azure I presume they mean more like, the compute, database, hosted kubernetes etc products. Most of which people run Linux on and tend(?) not to integrate with ActiveDirectory, broadly.

Good day to have a wiggler plugged in to prevent reauth.

https://wiebetech.com/products/mouse-jiggler-mj-3/

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