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: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 20 2018, @03:19PM
If it's all virtual, how can there be a capacity problem? It's all just controls. Dial up more virtual machines, problem solved!
It's just like printing money!
Or laying off people to improve this quarter's profits.
Or requiring move overtime.
Or polluting the air and water because . . . executive bonuses!
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.