{"id":2601,"date":"2017-10-04T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2017-10-04T11:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:42:14","slug":"azure-fell-over-for-7-hours-in-europe-because-someone-accidentally-set-off-the-fire-extinguishers-%e2%80%a2-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-internet-guy.com\/?p=2601","title":{"rendered":"Azure fell over for 7 hours in Europe because someone accidentally set off the fire extinguishers \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"
They speak a little differently in the UK… so sorry about some of the language\/metaphors in this one.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has explained how a cascading series of cockups left some of its Northern European Azure customers without access to services for nearly seven hours.<\/p>\n
On September 29, the sounds of “Sacr\u00e9 bleu!” “Scheisse!” and “What are the bastards up to now?” were, we’re guessing, heard from Redmond’s Euro clients after key systems went down between 1327 and 2015 UTC. Virtual Machines, Cloud Services, Azure Backup, App Services and Web Apps, Azure Cache, Azure Monitor, Azure Functions, Time Series Insights, Stream Analytics, HDInsight, Data Factory and Azure Scheduler, and Azure Site Recovery were all titsup.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n