Microsoft's Azure cloud suffers first crash
Evangelize first, report later
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Microsoft wanted to offer people the full cloud experience. Well, now it has.
The company's pre-beta Azure Services Platform has joined the likes of Amazon Web Services and Flexiscale with a massive outage - Azure's first.
Azure went dark for a period of 22 hours on Friday and Saturday, leaving a "large number of deployments" slow to start or restart, or simply hanging in "stopped" or "initializing" states.
One such adopter was Oakleaf Systems, whose Table and Blob Services demos were offline.
As of Monday morning, it was not clear what had caused the outage with the company unlikely to publish a report on the incident until after this week's Mix conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, where Microsoft will be encouraging developers to adopt Azure.
Azure team member Steve Marx said he expected a root cause analysis would be conducted to "understand exactly what went wrong and what we need to do to ensure it doesn't happen again. Once we have that sorted out, I'll put together a summary."
However, he "probably won't get that out until after the Mix conference." ®
COMMENTS
Windows Update
Well they have published the reasons and how it's not going to happen again.
http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/03/18/the-windows-azure-malfunction-this-weekend.aspx
They blame a "routine os upgrade" - yes that same trick that cause the Yankee Group to declare Windows Server the most unreliable in the industry for 2008.
Flying IMC
As any IFR rated pilot will tell you, flying IMC in an open cockpit is dangerous because you get cloud in your mouth.
Paris. As she makes equally sense. Or not.
Time for megacloud
What are the chances of all these clouds being down at the same time? I think parallelism is the way forward here.
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