Microsoft Azure Services Recover from Global Outage

According to Reuters, Microsoft's cloud computing platform Microsoft Azure said that areas affected by the global outage have shown "strong signs of recovery", and the system is moving towards full recovery by the morning of October 30 (Vietnam time).

Heathrow Airport (UK) was disrupted by a Microsoft incident that disrupted some services. Photo: TWI

Azure's outage affected many services and industries around the world , including the Microsoft 365 suite of applications.

Alaska Airlines said its booking system and apps were paralyzed by an Azure outage, but are slowly recovering after Microsoft resolved the issue. The websites of Heathrow Airport (UK) and Vodafone (UK) have also returned to service after experiencing similar problems.

According to Microsoft, the problem originated from “a recent configuration change in the Azure infrastructure”, causing Microsoft customers and services using the Azure Front Door platform (global application and content delivery network) to experience access errors and slow connections from midnight on October 29 (Vietnam time).

Microsoft further explained that configuration changes are a regular activity in the technology field, but even a small mistake can cause a chain effect in globally connected cloud systems.

“We are restoring nodes, rerouting traffic through healthy nodes, and balancing loads to restore full operational scale,” the group said.

Microsoft’s outage comes just a week after Amazon’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing service suffered a disruption that disrupted thousands of popular websites and apps like Snapchat and Reddit. The back-to-back outages have raised concerns about the vulnerability of a global technology system increasingly reliant on large “clouds.”

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/dich-vu-microsoft-azure-phuc-hoi-sau-su-co-toan-cau-post820744.html