an upgrade that did not take

Just spoke to an Azure cloud engineer and he said that issues stemmed from there

Not all systems updated right

Azure is used to service a lot of legacy systems (old windows machines) that are rife with issues, and the platform itself is pretty jank

So, they have to go back and isolate them and re-update them and then re go live again

What I hear at least - and have done

Have done the same and outages are unavoidable

most the time

makes you feel like shit

Unless it’s a well engineered system with staging and production which I doubt

but it has to be done

Oracle, while frustrating, was better at this

Purely database backed apps can usually be restored cause snapshots actually work

And capture the entire state

Yes, but not with cloud

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Well cloud can be ok if you do it right but you can also do it horribly wrong and then you’re doomed

Something fishy going on

They don’t have back up servers?...

No way it wasn't a functional azure update

That runs the government cloud operations

I know it is a big upgrade and everyuone has been doing it - also security patches

> That runs the government cloud operations
@Pill Clinton CIA uses Amazon’s AWS

Buy more amazon stock imo

There's been so much migration to Azure by other agencies

They should use AWS. It’s cheaper

There's other Defense agencies that use Azure

And honestly if you’re agency hiding secret and sensitive info you should probably be working on local servers

Lol nah that's that beauty of contracting

Using cloud is just asking for trouble

I am a software engineer making on prem private clouds

It has its own issues tbh

But hey, air gaps!

For sure, but migrating locally based servers to a scaled network that can be utilized across agencies and users has a huge benefit for SIGINT and other intel gathering

One day Amazon or Microsoft won’t exist... so what do all these businesses do running on Azure or AWS?

database conversions

Look up DMSMS

Amazon will probably exist for thousands of years just on inertia

Azure caters to jacked up legacy IT stuff that is too complex to be worth converting to modern design

The anti trust laws going to catch up with these big QQQ companies

When your only alternative as a contractor is building something in house at an absurd cost, that's when the government gets pissed