[Outages-discussion] Azure Outageks

Martin Hepworth maxsec at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 03:07:00 EDT 2018


This is the thing about cloud, especially paas or iaas YOU are responsible
to design and implementation of the resiliency

But what didnt help was that the resource manager to achieve that
resiliency also fell over, and Azure AD Struggled with the loss of a major
data centre and having to route around it.


On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 at 04:27, Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net>
wrote:

> Yes, neither of those are acceptable explanation is for a data center of
> this size going off-line for 37 hours.
>
> On Sep 5, 2018, at 22:14, James <jamesam at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Their infrastructure didn’t failover as consumers thought, or it didn’t
> failover as planned.  Probably hadn’t tested/planned for this possibility.
>
> On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 8:25 PM <frnkblk at iname.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you mean more than what's been covered here?
>>
>> https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/microsoft-azure-suffers-outage-after
>> -cooling-issue/
>> <https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/microsoft-azure-suffers-outage-after-cooling-issue/>
>>
>> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-
>> takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/
>> <https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/>
>>
>> Frank
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Outages-discussion <outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org> On
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>> Of Matt Hoppes
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2018 6:09 PM
>> To: outages-discussion at outages.org
>> Subject: [Outages-discussion] Azure Outageks
>>
>> Can anyone shed light on the nearly 37 hour Azure Outage that just
>> happened?
>>
>> How did this get so bad for so long?  Where was redundancy?
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