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Major IT outage affecting banks, airlines, media outlets across the world (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by rxxrc@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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All our servers and company laptops went down at pretty much the same time. Laptops have been bootlooping to blue screen of death. It's all very exciting, personally, as someone not responsible for fixing it.

Apparently caused by a bad CrowdStrike update.

Edit: now being told we (who almost all generally work from home) need to come into the office Monday as they can only apply the fix in-person. We'll see if that changes over the weekend...

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[–] Rinox@feddit.it 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I dunno, but doesn't like a quarter of the internet kinda run on Azure?

[–] atocci@lemmy.world 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And 60% of Azure is running Linux lol

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago

so 40% of azure crashes a quarter of the internet...

[–] Rinox@feddit.it 4 points 5 months ago

I guess Spotify was running on the other 40%, as many other services

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

doesn't like a quarter of the internet kinda run on Azure?

Said another way, 3/4 of the internet isn't on Unsure cloud blah-blah.

And azure is - shhh - at least partially backed by Linux hosts. Didn't they buy an AWS clone and forcibly inject it with money like Bobby Brown on a date in the hopes of building AWS better than AWS like they did with nokia? MS could be more protectively diverse than many of its best customers.