There are rumblings that Azure is having capacity issues once again, with customers in the UK South region reporting problems getting new VMs provisioned.
[...] In case there was any doubt as to what the problem was, the message went on: "To ensure that all customers can access the services they need, we are working through approving quota requests as we bring additional capacity online."
According to the update, the capacity constraints apply to the A, BS, Dv2, DSv2, Dv3 and DSv3 series machines in the UK South region. A-series VMs are typically used for development and testing, B-series are similiar[sic], but are geared to short bursts of high CPU utilisation. The D-series are heftier beasts, aimed at running enterprise applications. The 'S' moniker indicates support for SSDs.
Microsoft introduced the Dv3 VM sizes last July, with the cloudy machines featuring up to 64vCPUs and 256GiB RAM. Assuming you can actually provision the things.
Customers are feeling blue about Azure.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by requerdanos on Friday July 20 2018, @12:44AM (2 children)
If you are having trouble becoming a Microsoft customer, perhaps it's fate.
You might have a look at lowendbox.com and see whether you can find a VM there. Though you will end up with a random provider that might or might suit you, three major benefits are that (1) you'll get a VM, (2) you won't be tied to Microsoft nor encouraging them financially, and (3) it will be much less boring and more adventurous.
As I age, I find that "more boring" and "less adventurous" are much nicer than they sound, yet I still keep being drawn back to lowendbox.com (no affiliation other than I read the site and occasionally follow their links to put virtual machines online). It's because I am cheap. VMs that work out, I put clients on; VMs that don't, I don't renew.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @12:54AM
When you're submitting your blog/resume to top tech companies, "Managed some Linux VMs on a bunch of cheap no-name VPS providers" doesn't look as good as "Rockstar DevOps Fucking The Azure Cloud Bro!"
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Friday July 20 2018, @07:43PM
Unfortunately, I no longer have time for lowendbox.com. The value of my time is such that I would rather pay an extra few dollars for something that is boring over something that becomes exciting once a month.
Google's AppEngine cuts a mean deal. For low traffic web site or web service hosting, it ends up costing around a penny every few months with far less hassle. The terms of service is also superior to what most lowendbox.com providers have, probably in part because Google provides service to other large companies that demand it.
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