I guess people really have forgotten how to run datacenters.<p>The only people who should be shocked in this thread are the people who have been hoodwinked into thinking operations is so hard you need thousands of staff. I know AWS/GCP/Azure like to <i>charge us</i> as if we were hiring an army of sysadmins, but the truth is that day-to-day DC ops does not require so many people. Hardware failures are more rare than you think and you can work around them without panicking anyway.
I know very little on the datacenter operations side of things - I guess 3 people is not a lot, but what is normal? How many operations people are at say AWS US-East-1? I presume it doesn't scale with number of servers, that would not scale well. What is a 'normal' level? 10? 100? It can't be more than 100, can it?
Guessing affected customers had to spend time and effort on top of ongoing high cloud bills<p>I've slept so much better since I began hosting, producing energy, and cooling on-prem
I straight out think MS lied when they said this was an .au only issue. We had a surge of rouge traffic from MS during this issue and we are pretty much on the other side of the globe.