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Microsoft can't cloud anymore, because one of their providers, edg.io, is bankrupt (and instead of doing the clouding themselves, which they could have been doing, they did not, and now suddenly have to move a lot of things around).

Original posting

• https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/113777410120359523

leading to

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/critical-dotnet-install-links-are-changing/dotnet installers need to use different URLs – maybe your own installers need change, too. Microsoft had been hosting stuff on azureedge.net, which was running via edg.io. The domains will cease to exist.

Microsoft assures us that "No other party will ever have access to use these domains", so maybe they will not immediately become malware distribution endpoints.

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/frontdoor/migrate-cdn-to-front-door
  If you had been using Azure CDN, you have work to do.

• Digicert dropped IPv6.

A lot of other people may also be affected.