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  • AWS, Azure, Cloudflare – who’s next?

    On October 20th, quite some parts of AWS went down (AWS Outage Analysis: October 20, 2025, What caused the AWS outage – and why did it make the internet fall apart?).

    I don’t follow thouse outages very intensly, but the last such outage I remember(!) was end of February 2017 with the big S3 outage (The great Amazon S3 outage of 2017, Amazon And The $150 Million Typo).

    Then not even 10 days later, Microsoft Azure‘s Frontdoor had a wide spread service disruption on October 29th, that affected a lot of Azure clients (Microsoft Azure Front Door Outage Analysis: October 29, 2025)

    And today, on November 18th, Cloudflare experienced an outage that affects large parts of the internet (Cloudflare apologises for outage which took down X and ChatGPT, Cloudflare outage: Services globally disrupted)

    As if we wouldn’t be talking about digital sovereignty enough … These incidents just show the dependency of large parts of the internet to just a small amount of companies. Not exactly what was intended when the internet was built.

    Can we just count days until GCP follows? For Google, I hope that they won’t have an outage in the christmas shopping period.

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  • The end of “The Azure Podcast”

    As I am a regular listener of the The Azure Podcast. I was a bit surprised to see the title of the latest episode: Episode 521 – The Final Episode. That sounds like final, final – like as if it wouldn’t be continued?

    And indeed! :-(

    In this special final episode of the Azure Podcast, hosts Cale, Evan, Sujit, Russell, Cynthia, and Kendall come together to reflect on the incredible journey of the podcast over the past 12 years. They share personal anecdotes, discuss the evolution of Azure services, and reminisce about the early days of podcasting.

    In a LinkedIn comment, the host Sujit D’Mello writes:

    When we started, there were no podcasts for Azure […]. Now, there are many podcasts available that cover various aspects of Azure, so the co-hosts felt the time had come to turn off the microphones and channel our passion for Azure in other ways.

    So why do I blog about the end of a podcast? First of all, I find it pretty impressive to run a podcast over 521 episodes and 12 years! This shows quite some dedication for their topic! I also found it entertaining to listen to their stories. But I also pay the respect for their decision to finally switch off thei microphones – despite the fact that I maybe have to look for an alternative.

    Just too bad, that all the (co)hosts aren’t on the fediverse to follow.

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