The latest public cloud services to experience an increase outage is the Microsoft’s Azure cloud, it succeeds to two main crashes that will affect previous downtime at Salesforce.com and Amazon’s cloud in the upcoming month. The disruption emphasizes the defect of the cloud computing and how the services and the software established over cloud computing are commonly as determined as their weakest link that are in the part of a huge and sometimes careless firms.
Microsoft then posted its apology on its Windows Azure dashboard which stated that they are facing an availability concern in the sub region of Western Europe that blow access to hosted services in the region. They are severely observing the issue and managing to resolve it immediately, and additional updates will be proclaimed to keep them informed with the situation.
But, later on the firm stated that the outage was immediately resolved. They posted that they asked pardon for any disadvantage the outage may have brought with their customers, the extent of the service interruption was nearly 2.5 hours. The customers who have concerns with the situation are advised to contact customer service and support. Appealing to the UK government’s Cloudstore service offline, Azure had recently gone down last March when it experienced a leap day disruption.
In a span of one year, Azure has recently claimed that it stores over four trillion objects or more than quadrupling in its size. Even though Azure supports Microsoft’s Office and SkyDrive 365 services, as Amazon’s cloud is frequently utilized for third-party application development, Microsoft’s raw numbers determine that its cloud is more famous over Amazon’s.
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