<story><title>Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage</title><text>One hour into it, no status page update. Looks like Active Directory is down.&lt;p&gt;I guess they felt left out with all the AWS issues lately?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrs235</author><text>How soon until &amp;quot;the cloud&amp;quot; and centralized services &amp;quot;vaporize&amp;quot; and on-premise becomes all the rage?&lt;p&gt;The cycle will continue. What was old will become new again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>paradite</author><text>One of my favourite quotes is from &amp;quot;Romance of the Three Kingdoms&amp;quot;. It notes an observation that I find generally applicable to many things in life: 
&amp;quot;Those long divided shall be united;
those long united shall be divided:
such is the way of the universe.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Original quote in Chinese: ＂话说天下大势，分久必合，合久必分。＂</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage</title><text>One hour into it, no status page update. Looks like Active Directory is down.&lt;p&gt;I guess they felt left out with all the AWS issues lately?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrs235</author><text>How soon until &amp;quot;the cloud&amp;quot; and centralized services &amp;quot;vaporize&amp;quot; and on-premise becomes all the rage?&lt;p&gt;The cycle will continue. What was old will become new again.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stevejb</author><text>Same as when horse and buggies will come back in response to a disruption of the gasoline supply chain.</text></comment>