What happened yesterday with Azure?
Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on Azure. There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. Jeffrey Fritz gave an explanation but I'm not buying it: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter Anybody has any other details about this? Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?
This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything is dead. Things that concerned me are a) How can a problem happen simultaneously is almost every data center. Shouldn't they be isolated so that can't happen. b) They need to communicate better during outages. The status page is to slow to update and often not accurate. They need a Twitter account giving updates every 5 minutes. Craig On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on Azure. There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. Jeffrey Fritz gave an explanation but I'm not buying it: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter Anybody has any other details about this? Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?
Craig, There is a twitter status page: https://twitter.com/azurestatus It's still not updated .. even if it has heaps of other status updates ... :( On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything is dead. Things that concerned me are a) How can a problem happen simultaneously is almost every data center. Shouldn't they be isolated so that can't happen. b) They need to communicate better during outages. The status page is to slow to update and often not accurate. They need a Twitter account giving updates every 5 minutes. Craig On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on Azure. There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. Jeffrey Fritz gave an explanation but I'm not buying it: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter Anybody has any other details about this? Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?
Also, the failover he describes in the article is no good in yesterdays problem. I had that failover configured but it is no good if every data center goes down! On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything is dead. Things that concerned me are a) How can a problem happen simultaneously is almost every data center. Shouldn't they be isolated so that can't happen. b) They need to communicate better during outages. The status page is to slow to update and often not accurate. They need a Twitter account giving updates every 5 minutes. Craig On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on Azure. There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. Jeffrey Fritz gave an explanation but I'm not buying it: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter Anybody has any other details about this? Thanks, Corneliu.
Re: What happened yesterday with Azure?
Yes, but that doesn't really provide any useful info. I want to know what the problem is, when will it be fixed and what we can do in the mean time. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Craig, There is a twitter status page: https://twitter.com/azurestatus It's still not updated .. even if it has heaps of other status updates ... :( On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk crai...@gmail.com wrote: This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead almost everything is dead. Things that concerned me are a) How can a problem happen simultaneously is almost every data center. Shouldn't they be isolated so that can't happen. b) They need to communicate better during outages. The status page is to slow to update and often not accurate. They need a Twitter account giving updates every 5 minutes. Craig On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea corne...@acorns.com.au wrote: Hi every, Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down world wide. At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still working. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else running on Azure. There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. Jeffrey Fritz gave an explanation but I'm not buying it: http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeedutm_medium=twitter Anybody has any other details about this? Thanks, Corneliu.
