Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

theregister.co.uk

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

21–30 of 61 posts

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

#21

Post by barranger »

dragosstancu wrote: post #18

That 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 Fl…

was the media stored in blob storage? From the article it looks like storage accounts weren't effected, just the management api and ~4% of service accounts.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

#24

Post by ot »

speedracr wrote: post #8

As a non-tech observer, Azure actually struck me as an honest attempt by Microsoft to add a compelling offer to the mix. However, their status page-cum-website seem to be hosted on Azure itself, which is ridiculous in a situation like this. (Almost like Twitter having a status page on tumblr.) Worst of all, even www.twitter.com/windowsazure offers no comment at all so far. Isn't this wiping out any credibility they m…

> Edit: if this truly is because of 2/29, I guess anyone signing up from now on will get perfect service.

At least for the next 4 years

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

#25

Post by bouncing »

Maxious wrote: post #13
Tloewald wrote: post #3

So 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.

Yeah, and I noticed my paycheck arrived a day early.

Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours

#27

Post by dutchbrit »

tathagatadg wrote: post #15
NARKOZ wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ping responses are disabled

Makes sense, but at least www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/ shouldn't time out ...

Exactly.. Not sure why my comment was down voted - sure, maybe pinging is disabled and that part of my comment wasn't valid. But still, isn't responding.
Post reply on HN