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October 2025 is still tough in cloud computing, as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure two major cloud providers experience a massive outage, affecting a multimillion userbase, and who knows how many systems worldwide. Not only do these massive outages expose the fickle and brittle nature of the increasingly well-connected global cloud infrastructures, they also reiterate the cloud’s complexity and demand for solid development and infrastructure oversight. In this article, we break down both outage incidents including the timing, the technical cause of the incidents, overview of the service impact, and much-needed lessons for cloud architects and DevOps dots. Continue reading “Complete Case Study On The AWS and Azure Outages Of October 2025”

Azure automation is a cloud service that helps in automating management tasks thereby saving time and preventing errors. We can also use Azure automation for several other tasks in the cloud as well, for on-premises configuration items. Don’t wait for a traffic spike to take down your app or site. With Scheduled AutoScale, you can respond before anything happens.

We had a standalone MySQL server that was running in production. When the workload used to increase/decrease, we had to manually increase/decrease the SKU tier. The process seemed hectic and time-consuming. That’s why we thought of autoscaling the MySQL server which led to better performance of the MySQL server and saved our time.

In this blog, I have explained how to set up an Azure automation account, create a runbook, publish a runbook, scheduling, etc.