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How “azure” trended on Hacker News

“Azure” was mentioned 49,968 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Nov 2023 with 636 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “azure” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “azure”

1. 1.“I saw that you spun up an Ubuntu image in Azure” 1,168 points · 455 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
2. 2.Tell HN: Azure outage 885 points · 806 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
3. 3.400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure 703 points · 386 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
4. 4.How to burn the most money with a single click in Azure 699 points · 397 comments · 2020 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses 483 points · 302 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Tell HN: Azure Outage 438 points · 2 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Microsoft developer reveals Linux is now more used on Azure than Windows Server 426 points · 176 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Ask HN: Azure has run out of compute – anyone else affected? 397 points · 218 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
9. 9.$500k of Azure credit for YC startups 393 points · 166 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Why I distrust Google Cloud more than than AWS or Azure 391 points · 243 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Horrors of Using Azure Kubernetes Service in Production 371 points · 136 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage 371 points · 121 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN

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