Microsoft reveals train of mistakes that killed Azure in the South Central US 'incident'

Thunderbolt and lightning, Azure outage frightening

Microsoft has published the preliminary findings for what it calls “the South Central US incident”, but what many will call “the day the Azure cloud fell from the sky” and it doesn’t make for happy reading.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
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