Ein digitaler Blackout der US-Clouds (#AWS, #GCP, #Azure, #Cloudflare & Co.) würde uns in Europa kalt erwischen – vielleicht ist es genau das, was wir brauchen.
Ein paar Tage Shutdown, weil es jemand einfach so anordnet. Gefolgt von massiven Ausfällen und Chaos. Es zeigt sich immer wieder: erst wenn’s wehtut, passiert was.
Bis dahin bleibt ‚digitale Souveränität‘ ein schönes Wort – aber ohne Druck bleibt’s bei Lippenbekenntnissen. Traurig, aber wahr: Veränderung braucht Schmerz.
Day 505. We lost our fight against #Azure Defender for now. But you may not.
Before activating Azure Defender plans, ask yourself this: Do you really want to buy security products from a company that can't even keep its own private keys safe?
Chris investigates the Palestinian-led Xbox Boycott and how it's already secured a major victory against one of the largest corporations on the planet.Pledge...
We see that about 1-5% of all UDP-packets triggering a "ICMP Destination Unreachable" even though the system (virtual machine) is accepting connections.
I even see that the DNS server is getting Dest-Unreach packets for DNS answers it sends.
It seems very likely that these are sent by the platform and not the system itself.
We operate the firewall and were the prime suspects until I could show that packets reaching us on the incoming interfaces.
vWAN-Hub is being used, Firewall is a NVA deployed inside the vWAN Hub.
Does anyone have an idea what is causing this behavior?
I would like to ask again if someone has any idea why I see so many "ICMP Destination Unreachable (Port Unreachable)" packets in #Azure
The phenomenon is only affecting #UDP packets, I don't see this for TCP
The packets affected are not large (95% are less 200 Bytes)
The packets are not fragmented
Every UDP service is affected (but not equally)
The systems in questions are VMs (mostly Linux, some Windows)
Example:
Client sends DNS query
Nameserver sends answer
Client (according to dump) sends "ICMP Destination Unreachable (Port Unreachable)"
My estimate that ~1% of all packets are affected. But it leads to calls being dropped or video transmissions containing artifacts.
Are there settings you can mess up in your Azure VM?
Currently I am trying to find out if the packets are visible on the system that is supposedly sending it. This means crossing borders in terms of operational responsibility ....
We see that about 1-5% of all UDP-packets triggering a "ICMP Destination Unreachable" even though the system (virtual machine) is accepting connections.
I even see that the DNS server is getting Dest-Unreach packets for DNS answers it sends.
It seems very likely that these are sent by the platform and not the system itself.
We operate the firewall and were the prime suspects until I could show that packets reaching us on the incoming interfaces.
vWAN-Hub is being used, Firewall is a NVA deployed inside the vWAN Hub.
Does anyone have an idea what is causing this behavior?
Hoert auf, die „Cloud“ fuer eine Wolke zu halten. Das ist Beton, Strom, Software – und Macht.
In meiner aktuellen #MeTacheles Ausgabe spreche ich ueber Bequemlichkeit, nicht vorhandene Redundanzen und wie wir die einst wunderbare Dezentralitaet des Netzes, durch #aws, #Azure und #Cloudflare ersetzt haben.
Habt ihr das auch mitbekommen? Der stille Schwenk der europäischen Politik weg von der „digitalen Souveränität“ hin zur „Datensouveränität“? Denn nur so kannst du politisch begründen, dass du mit deinem Souveränitätsanspruch weiterhin auf Services von #AWS, #Azure und #GCP zurückgreifst.
Hey, dass muss man so machen. Mit dem russischen Gas hatte es ja auch viele Jahre geklappt.
»Nach dem Cloudflare-Ausfall — Digital völlig unsouverän: Die Ausfälle von AWS, Azure und @cloudflare haben gezeigt: Das Netz steht auf tönernen Füßen. Der Countdown zum GAU läuft.«
Das so gut wie alle Drittanbietern im Web den dominierenden Konzernen blind vertrauen kritisierte ich schon lange & wurde als surrealistischer Spinner bezeichnet, nun das. P.S. Schnell geht der Wechsel nicht.
The services of internet provider Cloudflare are disrupted on Tuesday afternoon. Numerous websites are affected. The company is investigating the problem.
Negli ultimi giorni, gli ennesimi guasti ai sistemi #AWS e #Azure hanno lasciato migliaia di utenti senza accesso a molti servizi: una dimostrazione di quanto sia fragile un web concentrato nelle mani di pochi.
💪 Serve sostenere chi costruisce alternative libere e trasparenti. Dietro ogni server del @fediverso ogni servizio etico, ci sono persone, tempo, costi e tanta passione.
👉 per sostenere i @devol e partecipare al cambiamento:
> We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change was the trigger event for this issue.
Folks, it's all okay! It was just an inadvertent configuration change [that happened to bring loads of services for millions of users down]. No biggie.
Microsoft Outlook, 365 and other services crashed Saturday, affecting tens of thousands in the United States and millions globally before services were restored in less than an hour.
While Azure was down and you could not use your Office 365 for 8 (eight) hours yesterday, Microsoft gloated about record profits: theguardian.com/technology/202…
This might be a good time to consider deploying, contributing to or otherwise supporting @nextcloud: nextcloud.com/
And before anyone says that Nextcloud's UI/UX is lacking: of course it is! Nextcloud has several orders of magnitude less money to throw at UI/UX.
But guess what: 1. this is fixable if they get more resources to work with; 2. every single Nextcloud instance I know of or use (there are many) stayed up and running yesterday.
Eine Milliarde für Microsoft? Das bayr. Finanzministerium will das überweisen, als Ergebnis seiner "Zukunftskommission 5.0". Gemeinsam mit elf bayerischen Unternehmen und Verbänden haben wir einen offenen Brief verfasst, der die Staatsregierung auffordert, mehr Souveränität bei der IT-Planung walten zu lassen. feilner-it.net, feilner-it.net/files/2025-10-2… #Steuergeldexport #TaxMoneyExport #DigitaleSouveränität #MS365 #Microsoft #CSU #Bayern Hier der offene Brief als Screenshots.
Oh ja, schaut euch mal die heute-show an, da wird anschaulich dargestellt, was geschehen würde, wenn morgen der Zugang zu sämtlichen amerikanischen Clouds gekappt würden! #heuteShow #Cloud #Google #AWS #Azure #UnplugTrump
"“The #Israeli #military uses Microsoft #Azure to compile information gathered through mass #surveillance, which it transcribes and translates, including phone calls, texts and audio messages, according to an Israeli #intelligence officer who works with the systems. That data can then be cross-checked with #Israel’s in-house targeting systems.”
Recent #cybersecurity incident around #CrowdStrike and #Windows #Azure shows the problem around monocultures and control over its one technology.
It is important for Europe to evaluate own dependencies and support administrations, business and citizens alike to run secure IT. For this #softwarefreedom plays an important role.
