22-Hour Outage for Windows Azure

Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud platform was offline for 22 hours ^[1] over the weekend. Windows Azure ^[2], which provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host web applications and services in Microsoft’s data center, is currently in technology preview.  The incident began Friday night at about 10:30 pm Pacific time, and was resolved at 8:30 Saturday night.

Windows Azure is housed in Microsoft’s huge data center in Quincy, Washington ^[3] and runs on Dell servers. ^[4] The pre-release technology preview and beta periods are useful for finding and fixing glitches, but also a time when developers are formulating opinions about the offering. Links via Cloud Security ^[5] and Oakleaf Systems ^[6].

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[1] offline for 22 hours: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/6c1cd8a2-8d9d-43e9-a1d8-928e0ca4de78

[2] Windows Azure: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/27/microsofts-cloud-windows-azure/

[3] Quincy, Washington: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/category/quincy-wash/

[4] Dell servers.: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/10/28/dell-our-servers-will-power-windows-azure/

[5] Cloud Security: http://cloudsecurity.org/2009/03/15/microsoft-azure-goes-dark-for-22-hours/

[6] Oakleaf Systems: http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/azure-services-outage-3132009-brief.html

[7] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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