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You're mistaking Kansas City, MO with Kansas City, KS. Kansas (the state) was running on fumes for a long time. Kansas (the state) also has nothing to do with this.

These are literally the first three words of the article: "Kansas City, Missouri"

Slightly off topic rant follows: I don't see a lot of tech sites talk about the fact that Azure and GCP have multi-region outages. Everybody sees this kind of thing and goes "shrug, an outage". No, this is not okay. We have multiple regions for a reason. Making an application support multi-region is HARD and COSTLY. If I invest that into my app, I never want it go down due to a configuration push. There has never been an AWS incident across multiple regions (us-east-1, us-west-2, etc). That is a pretty big deal to me.

Whenever I post this somebody comes along and says "well that one time us-east-1 went down and everybody was using the generic S3 endpoints so it took everything down". This is true, and the ASG and EBS services in other regions apparently were. BUT, if you invested the time to ensure your application could be multi-region and you hosted on AWS, you would not have seen an outage. Scaling and snapshots might not have worked, but it would not have been the 96.2% packet drop that GCP is showing here and your end users likely would not have noticed.

The articles that track outages at the different cloud vendors really should be pushing this.

Obviously we don't know what the extent of the issue is yet, but afaik there has never been an AWS incident that has affected multiple regions where an application had been designed to use them (like using region specific S3 endpoints). GCP and Azure have had issues in multiple regions that would have affected applications designed for multi-region.

Hangouts + Google Voice integration works just fine as well. Which is why I think most of us in this thread are/were pissed off. It's the only solution for us right now, with no clear way forward.

If my credit card is paying for an account, why wouldn't I get access to it?

There's lots to wish about Linode, but them allowing the person paying the bills to manage the account isn't one of them.

You can send messages using whatsapp desktop when your phone is off?

Turn your phone off and send a message to someone from your computer. Oh wait...

I can't deal with how signal desktop works. I DO NOT want messaging tied to my phone. I want it tied to an account that works wherever I sign in. I'd love to use Signal, but can't deal with that.

Kinda neat how careful they were to not say Azure performance was terrible.

Did they learn nothing from the Azure of yore? You don't roll out a change globally, ever.

While the postmortem is appreciated, I'd rather they just didn't roll out changes globally.

What does this do better/differently than an ADFS set up?