Also, the failover he describes in the article is no good in yesterdays problem. I had that failover configured but it is no good if every data center goes down!
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Craig van Nieuwkerk <crai...@gmail.com> wrote: > This effected me bad, although at least it happened during our day time so > I was immediately aware and could communicate to users. > > Not exactly sure what happened but I think it was related to Cloud Storage > being down. Many of the services rely on Cloud Storage so when it is dead > almost everything is dead. Things that concerned me are > > a) How can a problem happen simultaneously is almost every data center. > Shouldn't they be isolated so that can't happen. > b) They need to communicate better during outages. The status page is to > slow to update and often not accurate. They need a Twitter account giving > updates every 5 minutes. > > Craig > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Corneliu I. Tusnea < > corne...@acorns.com.au> wrote: > >> Hi every, >> >> Yesterday Azure had a massive outage with 80% of the Azure going down >> world wide. >> At some point only the Australian, Brazil and Japan DCs were still >> working. >> >> http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/#history >> >> The outage took down XBox and Office 365 and of course everyone else >> running on Azure. >> >> There deems to be no news from Microsoft of what went wrong and why. >> >> Jeffrey Fritz gave an "explanation" but I'm not buying it: >> >> http://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2014/11/19/fritz-azure-outage-web-sites.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter >> >> Anybody has any other details about this? >> >> Thanks, >> Corneliu. >> >> >> >> >
