Reading up on Azure

Hacker News commenters criticize Google Cloud's automated account suspension that took down Railway, questioning the lack of transparency and root cause explanation.

A website visualizes GitHub's outage history as a contribution graph heatmap, showing 47.2 hours of downtime over 47 days in the last year.

Google's Gemini now processes 10 billion tokens per minute (52x YoY) while reducing serving costs by 78%, driving cloud revenue up 48% to $17.7 billion.

Shellbox offers Linux VMs via SSH that suspend on disconnect, costing $0.02/hr running and $0.50/month parked, beating Hetzner under 186 hours of use per month.

AWS is fine but faces real challenges: the AI gap is closing, talent attrition threatens operational excellence, and 2026 will test execution.

Microsoft's AI products suffer from poor quality and low demand, driven by forced integration into core tools rather than genuine user need.