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."

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Re:It won't happen again

[phantomfive]

Yeah, and they also had the Sidekick outage with actual data loss. A lovely quote from that article:

"I asked Microsoft for comment Saturday when I was writing this, in particular as to how the rest of its cloud might differ from the Danger set up. Microsoft said Sunday that its the fabric controller that manages the Azure service is built with redundancy in mind. "

It may be built with redundancy in mind, but apparently it still has at least one single point of failure.