It's entirely possible the move to Azure has made the availability problems worse. Dedicated hardware is much more predictable than cloud. "Let's not move to Azure and instead buy a few more racks" was likely a decision beyond the pay grade of github's management.

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AntiUSAbah 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I mean its Microsoft and its Azure. How much can go wrong clicking yourself a few/hundred non autoscaling normal VMs?

There is so much workload running on Azure, i never heard of VMs go away.

If Microsoft can source hardware for Azure, Microsoft can source hardware for Github.

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0xy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Azure is easily the least reliable and least secure of the 3 hyperscalers, which is crazy because GCP was an also-ran underdog not that long ago.

	▲	alper an hour ago \| parent [-]
		This entire exercise if anything is a huge indictment of Azure. But that doesn't matter because the kind of person that buys Azure, just like the kind of person that buys MS Teams, is entirely driven by price and does not care about anything else.