Forget snowmageddon, it's dropageddon in Azure SQL world: Microsoft accidentally deleted customer DBs

There's a five minute gap where your transactions are toast

Exclusive  The Azure outage of January 29 claimed some unexpected victims in the form of surprise database deletions for unlucky customers.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
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