The Clouds Halloween Scare Lessons From The Azure Outage
News Source : Forbes
News Summary
- Microsoft's Azure platform went dark for hours, disrupting airlines, retailers, banks and even Microsoft’s own services.
- Xbox users were locked out, Microsoft 365 slowed to a crawl and Alaska Airlines and Heathrow Airport reported system failures.
- Microsoft confirmed that the outage was triggered by a configuration change in Azure Front Door, its global content and application delivery network.
- Outages like this are predictable stress tests, not rare accidents.
- Every business relying on the cloud must prepare to operate when its provider fails.
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