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*ASB **http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>* **Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market…*** On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:19 PM, Ben Scott <mailvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Reports are that large portions of the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud > infrastructure failed this evening. Apparently MSFT let a critical > security certificate expire. This knocked out the Storage service > *world wide*. That in turn has caused cascade failures, since many > other Azure services depend on the Storage service. Service Bus, Web > Sites, Access Control, and Compute are all impacted. > > MSFT seems to have a problem with letting things expire. They got > nailed by a certificate boundary condition last year around this time, > and then there was that time they let passport.com expire and knocked > all their authentication systems offline. You'd think they'd have > this figured out by now. > > > http://www.zdnet.com/windows-azure-storage-issue-expired-https-certificate-possibly-at-fault-7000011705/ > > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/22/azure_problem_that_should_never_happen_ever/ > > "It is the opinion of /The Register/ that to have a core service > fail in every data center across the world simultaneously is an > extremely bad thing to happen to a cloud provider." > > -- Ben > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
