Microsoft Azure Failure: SSL Certificates Were Updated... Sort Of

judgecorp writes "Microsoft has published an explanation of the failure of Windows Azure earlier this month. Users of the Azure storage saw that an SSL certificate had expired. Microsoft's explanation says that the certificate had in fact been renewed, but an update with the new certificate details was not prioritized, and hadn't actually been implemented till after the old certificate expired. There are more interesting details, but Microsoft says better alerts and more automation will stop this particular fault happening again."

Comments

Maybe not putting incompetent cretins in charge?

[gweihir]

This may also help. If they now have a process to prevent exactly this problem, that is nice, but does nothing to prevent other problems that would be obvious to anybody halfway competent. This is a systematic problem, and the certificate was just one instance.

Of course, Microsoft has time and again demonstrated that they do not have what it takes, and safe for that one historic accident they would never have been of any importance.