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Ask HN: Azure Ran Out of Capacity?

by scottndecker on 10/3/24, 4:24 PM with 7 comments

We tried provisioning a database in US EAST. We were denied. We submitted a support request. We were told they could not provision the database due to high demand in that region (what??). We pivoted to US EAST 2 and am now getting blocked trying to deploy an App Service.

Azure, you have one job and that's to ALWAYS deploy the infrastructure I request.

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a work around?

  • by bob1029 on 10/3/24, 4:42 PM

    I abandoned Azure a few weeks ago over this. I was trying to spin up something approximating a basic-ass 2 core windows server in any region and was getting denied.

    If you have a choice, I would move to a different provider. Microsoft needs a wakeup call. I don't know how you can tout "hyperscalar" when your customers are standing in line and begging for days to get at a single bowl of soup.

  • by aprdm on 10/3/24, 5:44 PM

    I have reached limits on all cloud providers, it might surprise you but there's no "real cloud", it's just computers, and computers are a limited number of resources. For many reasons cloud providers might run out of computers on regions

  • by solardev on 10/3/24, 6:29 PM

    OpenAI is probably taking all their servers?