Post #2551265

2026-05-06 17:39 UTC

&quot;Microsoft told us that there is no more space in Azure for us to expand our cloud footprint&quot; - senior engineer in a major UK/global financial services group to me today. ☁️⛔ 🤯 Combination of AI demand and Microsoft engineering woes (?)

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@otfrom@functional.cafe 2026-05-06 18:23

@matthewskelton@mastodon.social just like the bad old days before the cloud

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@wackJackle@norden.social 2026-05-06 18:24

@matthewskelton@mastodon.social Well, the technofascists and the finance guys have to learn one important thing: physics > their ideology Easy as fuck

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@samir@mastodon.functional.computer 2026-05-06 19:18

@matthewskelton@mastodon.social @RuthMalan@mastodon.social That’s been my experience with them too. Us: “There’s no available compute here.” MS: “Try this new region, it has more capacity.” 2 weeks pass Us: “There’s no available compute here.” MS: “Oh, you shouldn’t be there; why did you decide to use that region!?”

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@eyup@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-05-07 20:49

@matthewskelton@mastodon.social We had to lean on our Azure rep to get more PostgreSQL servers last year in UK-South..

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@msmamet@mastodon.social 2026-05-12 12:00

@matthewskelton@mastodon.social This is the kind of constraint that forces the architectural conversation that should have happened three years earlier. Capacity ceilings from a single hyperscaler have a way of making multi-cloud religion look a lot more practical.

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