“Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud was hit by a worldwide partial compute outage today, calling into question how effectively Redmond has partitioned its service,” Jack Clark reports for The Register.
“The problems emerged at 2.35AM UTC, and were still ongoing as of 10.20PM UTC the same day, according to the company’s service dashboard,” Clark reports. “Every single Azure region – a geographically distant and independent set of data centers – was affected, but for posterity that included: West US, West Europe, Southeast Asia, South Central US, North Europe, North Central US, East Asia, and East US.”
Clark reports, “The antithesis of cloud computing is a problem cropping up that affects all regions simultaneously, and yet this marks the second time in under a year that Microsoft has had a concurrent global fail.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Cloud computing is hard. Incompetence makes it even harder. This won’t be Microsoft’s last Blue Sky of Death.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “The Roving Skeptic” for the heads up.]
“Blue Sky of Death” Nice, as in no cloud present.
Clever post of the day!
MDN has highlighted the irony of the Azure name previously!
That reminds me of the Microsoft “world without walls” ad campaign. The natural conclusion at the time was that if you don’t have walls, who needs Windows?!
That wasn’t the Register’s original headline.
I must assume that MDN has a streak of political correctness underneath all the snark.
It’s funny, there are a lots of words that are considered somewhat acceptable (in polite conversation) in the UK that are considered vulgar in almost any in the US.
That is but one of them. (for instance “the two C words” are commonly used in mixed company in the UK and virtually never in the US)
You have a filthy mouth. You should know better than to use “oops” in an MDN post.
And I thought one of those words was Cow as in silly cow in reference to stupid women.
Dog fooding strikes again (no doubt)
The original headline is a hoot! No pun intended!
Shouldn’t that be “Azure sky of death”?
All sorts of things crash at Microsoft. Windows, Ballmer’s career, sales of the Touch, and now their cloud services. Sounds like they’re batting a thousand. Way to go Microsoft, liking your strategy, liking it a lot. Keep up the good work.
Sorry, but MDN should not criticize MS too hard considering the rather crappy history of MobileMe and iCloud services.
Hear, hear
Yeah, I notice that MDN failed to note Apple’s own outage last night:
“Multiple iCloud Services – 31/10/2013 21:15 – 01/11/2013 00:11 – Some users were affected
Users may have been unable to use iCloud Documents, Photo Stream, iWork for iCloud, Backup & Restore, iPhoto Journals, or iMovie Theater.”
http://www.apple.com/lae/support/systemstatus/
I thought “Azure” meant cloudless sky?
TSA swiftly shut down Azure after Ballmer uploaded his porn collection. The highly depraved and deviant Bill Gates stuff overloaded virtually every pervert detector they had.
Funny… there is a pop-up ad for Azure in very the article that points out its dependability.
May not be Microsoft’s fault at all. Could be the NSA F#CKING with Microsoft just for fun. 😉
/s
It would be fun to poke fun at Microsoft for being an unreliable version of the Big Brother that Apple parodied in 1984. however, Apple’s iCloud is even less capable and has experienced all kinds of technical issues, including many fundamental ones that 3rd party developers have brought to Apple’s attention, which render Apple’s subsription-based platform unreliable and untrustable for any critical data.
Leaky pot, meet cracked kettle.
ALL clouds suck. Take the effort to manage and host your own data.
iCloud going down doesn’t cost your business tens of millions of dollars.
Big difference …
True, however, no one could run a business using iCloud either, even if it was 100% reliable.
Do you always steal other web site’s content and use it as your own, only to produce a single comment of original text? Or was that comment taken from somewhere else, too?
Hey my iPad crashes too !
Azure is actually an amazing cloud dev platform. My company is developing some truly amazing and industry changing technologies using Azure. If they can have the uptime that Xbox Live has had they can figure out these problems too.
Microsoft had a crash? In other earth shaking news, something happened.
isn’t the first image at Microsoft’s official Windows Azure here showing an Apple iMac? Hah!!
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/