Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
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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
#2I guess this sort of thing was bound to happen at some point. As the article says, all the major cloud platforms have had outages at some point.
As someone who is actively considering building products using this platform I'm keen to see how well they manage this issue. How do they communicate during the outage, how open about what went wrong are they afterwards, do they learn from it, and so on. I particularly like the efforts Amazon have gone to in the past to show they are learning from these issues (see http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/) I'm hopeful that Microsoft will show the same level of openness.
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#3So is this a feb 29 bug? Problem occurred, it seems, at the advent of 2/29 GMT. Worst date handling ever?
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#6So 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"
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#8As 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 might have built up with developers? Is anyone affected?
Edit: if this truly is because of 2/29, I guess anyone signing up from now on will get perfect service.
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#9http://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
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Request timeout for icmp_seq 5
Re: Microsoft's Azure cloud down and out for 8 hours
#10http://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