[protosam]

The article is pay walled. Seems like this would be the fault of the airlines though. There is a reason to be distributed between different geographic areas.

[tanelpoder]

But if the Azure outage is due to Windows machines crashing because of the currently ongoing CrowdStrike crash/reboot loop issue, then such servers might end up being down in all regions. Looks like there might be some advanced lessons to be learned about blast radius here...

[switch007]

Azure VM host machines are running CrowdStrike...??

[politelemon]

It's more coincidental than likely, since these are managed services that were down, while the crowdstrike issue is closer to company deployments.

But never say impossible, it's best to wait and see what the actual problem is rather than throwing shade so early.