Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage
nytimes.com
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https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_e...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-19/global-it-outage-crow...
This issue feels extremely widely spread.
Maybe we don't hear ppl complaining because we're offline? :)
I forget the exact timing and can't be bothered to look up my notes, but it was something like 11pm to 7am at the origin airport for a flight that was supposed to have landed at the destination around 8pm, as we were also stuck on the runway for an hour or so and even getting that far had been delayed.
The replacement flight the next day was also cancelled even though the airport was open.
I ended up taking a ferry and a train, and that was still simultaneously faster than the next available Ryanair replacement flight and cheaper than any other provider on short notice. Fortunately I had an understanding boss who didn't mind me arriving 4 days later than expected, and also a place to crash for free while working out the best route home.
It's unlikely you'd have heard of it unless you've worked at a large enterprise that runs primarily Microsoft IT.
Crowdstrike does have Mac/Linux "endpoints" also (IIRC) but I'm unsure if they're affected as well.
The Windows claim is a little misleading. We used Linux where I last encountered this. I expect Windows is where problems are manifesting this time; BSOD and kernel panics with this aren't new!
CrowdStrike seemingly came out of nowhere but has existed for a while... I think it's suspicious.
Have we not learned from SolarWinds and company? The vendors become part of your posture. Consolidating far too much
We have this crap running on our computers, and only Windows boxes seem affected.
On Linux this isn't running in kernel mode (our kernels are too up-to-date) and we don't seem to have any issue there.
Haven't heard anything about macs though.
The problem seems to be in a device driver installed by Crowdstrike - so I'm guessing whatever the bug is, it's specific. to their Windows product.
This looks suspiciosly a case of "let's download random crap from the web and run it in kernel space. what could possibly go wrong?"
Not surprising that AWS and GCP don't seem to be hit as they wouldn't run anything on Windows, unlike Azure, who I'm sure are forced to do so under MS' infamous interdepartmental structure.
Though I can image there's a Azure market for "Citrix server" kinda thing in the cloud
(or maybe it's SaaS - Solitaire as a Service)
Sky News UK is off the air. Some UK train companies are having an IT outage. Berlin, Melbourne airports flights disrupted...
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/azures_vulnerabilities_ar...
The impact is vast: imagine being blocked by an hostile administration in this way. Disaster recovery of this magnitude is like a global pandemic.
AI won’t save us. Network topology and admins will have their comeback.
The only difference is that when on-prem goes down you can shout to your infra engineers, when cloud goes down you shout at your enterprise cloud representative. The first is more effective, but even with that it still doesn't achieve the same reliability and disaster-recovery of your average cloud provider.
Decentralization is the way.
For all the US’s problems, devolving critical functions to layers of differing granularity has proven surprisingly robust to many faults.
I suspect we’ll see economic equivalents, where critical functions are spread around at various scales. We dont need to be either totally globalized or totally domestic.
I'm not criticizing any country or union here, and not praising them. I merely highlighting that maybe federation on its own is not the main cause of success of USA and there are some other more important factors at play.
Or the Four Pests campaign.
It's not like alternatives for MS services doesn't exist for decades. There smaller and more people friendly hostings, email services, file shares, office software etc. The problem is that people complaining about MS services don't wan't to use them or pay for them.
Perhaps just the ISP you're roaming with blocks the site?
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The text does however mention it's a specific measure against child pornography, not re-hosting copyright content.
But never say impossible, it's best to wait and see what the actual problem is rather than throwing shade so early.
yells at cloud
Could at least stylized it as CS 2²