I feel bad when ever I hear about outages at companies like this.
I'm in charge of technology for a hedge fund with 15 people and I get freaked out each time we roll out a new piece of software.
Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
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Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#12Article is not clear whether Azure instances are down, or just the service management tools? But either way, ouch!
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#13So is this a feb 29 bug? Problem occurred, it seems, at the advent of 2/29 GMT. Worst date handling ever?
Apparently electronic payment systems from ATMs to merchant terminals to HMO claim machines all went straight to march 1st. Hilarity ensued.
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#14So is this a feb 29 bug? Problem occurred, it seems, at the advent of 2/29 GMT. Worst date handling ever?
"We have identified the root cause of this incident. It has been traced back to a cert issue triggered on 2/29/2012 GMT"
It's a bit unfortunate description of time, I think. They could at least say "2/29/2012 01:45 GMT". Otherwise it looks like there's a different date in each timezone (yeah, there are two different ones, but not different in each, the bug started closer to beginning of 2/29/2012 GMT+2).
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#15http://www.windowsazure.com isn't even loading here. ping www.windowsazure.com PING wamktg-prod-db-001.cloudapp.net (65.52.64.144): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0 Request timeout for icmp_seq 1 Request timeout for icmp_seq 2 Request timeout for icmp_seq 3 Request timeout for icmp_seq 4 Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
ping responses are disabled
Makes sense, but at least www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/ shouldn't time out ...
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#16Not Itchy & Scratchy Land Europe!
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#17Weird, we have a couple of respectable (80+ requests per second) services running on azure in the SE asia zone, and I can't see any problems at all.
That said, we only rely on table storage and our instance count is mostly static.
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#18That sucks, we have a bunch of media stored with them and we're looking forward to using the cloud for some .NET based intensive processing (reporting).
A bit off topic: I've been trying for days to get Azure to work with .webm or .ogv files. Maybe I'm using the wrong tool (CloudBerry). I want to be able to deliver HTML5 video from the cloud but I'm without success for FF users. Luckily, my video player features a Flash fallback which is awesome.
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#19This seems to be about some odd certificate issue, not the network, which caused Microsoft to take access to its service management system down.
From the article itself:
> It later added that less than 3.8 per cent of hosted services had been affected.
If this was about Google or Apple, this submit would already have been flagged, taken off the front page, and several accounts would have been hell-banned.
It will be interesting to see if Microsoft expands on this issue and if we can learn something about it... Perhaps other datacenters are also vulnerable to cert issues in their management systems.
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#20Maybe they forgot to account for leap year in their programming :/