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Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime
New submitter dcraid writes with a quote from El Reg: "Microsoft's cloudy platform, Windows Azure, is experiencing a major outage: at the time of writing, its service management system had been down for about seven hours worldwide. A customer described the problem to The Register as an 'admin nightmare' and said they couldn't understand how such an important system could go down. 'This should never happen,' said our source. 'The system should be redundant and outages should be confined to some data centres only.'"
The Azure service dashboard has regular updates on the situation. According to their update feed the situation should have been resolved a few hours ago but has instead gotten worse: "We continue to work through the issues that are blocking the restoration of service management for some customers in North Central US, South Central US and North Europe sub-regions. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers." To be fair, other cloud providers have had similar issues before.
It's very safe though - just so safe no one can get access to it! :)
Nonsense, Microsoft is the name you can trust for security.
Yay, cloud!
This is not helping, guys!
The hilarious part of this link is that the article detailing how screwed people are for depending on Microsoft's cloud services is stuffed with rollover ads for...Microsoft's cloud services!
Since the image that "Azure" and "Cloud" conjurs up is more "sky" than "cloud" it would be my suggestion that Microsoft simply register chickenlit.tl and set up an Azure service status monitor/report page there.
They could have an adorable cartoon chicken that, when the system is working normally, runs around scratching and pecking(speed dependent on load). When downtime occurs, it would begin squawking about how the sky is falling. What could make failure more endearing?
Just to add that Microsoft touch, they could do the entire thing as a Microsoft Agent ActiveX control!
Well...maybe not right now...
Put your servers in the Azure cloud to have an uptime of 9.999999999%
it's a leap year, they can be down a full day and still claim they were up for 365 days this year!
So they can have virtually unlimited "read only" downtime as long as they turn write back on every
Let me guess. Switched you to read-only right in the middle.
I've always had to laugh at the name "Office 365" -- the fact this happened on Leap Day amuses me to no end.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..