Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime 210
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.
Re:But Remember - (Score:5, Funny)
It's very safe though - just so safe no one can get access to it! :)
Re:But Remember - (Score:5, Funny)
Nonsense, Microsoft is the name you can trust for security.
To quote the lady in the commercial... (Score:5, Funny)
Yay, cloud!
Now they're slashdotted, too... (Score:5, Funny)
This is not helping, guys!
Re:So merely days after announcing the G-Cloud... (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Feature Suggestion! (Score:5, Funny)
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 [wikimedia.org]!
To the cloud! (Score:5, Funny)
Great uptime! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cloud services not ready (Score:5, Funny)
it's a leap year, they can be down a full day and still claim they were up for 365 days this year!
Re:But Remember - (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Office 365 (Score:4, Funny)