Certificate Expiry Leads to Total Outage For Microsoft Azure Secured Storage 176
rtfa-troll writes "There has been a worldwide (all locations) total outage of storage in Microsoft's Azure cloud. Apparently, 'Microsoft unwittingly let an online security certificate expire Friday, triggering a worldwide outage in an online service that stores data for a wide range of business customers,' according to the San Francisco Chronicle (also Yahoo and the Register). Perhaps too much time has been spent sucking up to storage vendors and not enough looking after the customers? This comes directly after a week-long outage of one of Microsoft's SQL server components in Azure. This is not the first time that we have discussed major outages on Azure and probably won't be the last. It's certainly also not the first time we have discussed Microsoft cloud systems making users' data unavailable."
Lolwut? (Score:4, Funny)
What's an expirty?
Expirty? Vendros? (Score:0, Funny)
The spell check is strong with this one.
Re:Lolwut? (Score:5, Funny)
Typical. (Score:5, Funny)
Not the first time they've made such blunders:
http://slashdot.org/story/03/11/06/1540257/microsoft-forgets-to-renew-hotmailcouk
If only Redmond had some sort of calendar system to help them remember this stuff.
Re:Spellcheck... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe rtfa-troll and Timothy's spell checkers were hosted on Azure.
Re:Lolwut? (Score:5, Funny)
Vendro is Destro's cousin, who works on the supply side.
Re:Typical. (Score:5, Funny)
Does MS not have a credit card its vendor can keep on file?
Re:12 hours to update the certs? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe they tried rolling back to an older version of the cert first.
(Yes, that was sarcasm.)
Re:Blew their support contracts.. (Score:5, Funny)
Finally the Microsoft Blue Screen of Death has made into the new mobile cloud age.
I mean the Azure Screen of Death, excuse me Mr. Ballmer.
Re:Then what the hell was this Slashdot article? (Score:5, Funny)
Outperforms in reliability, huh? bullshit
Of course it doesn't work, but look how fast it is!
Re:Lolwut? (Score:1, Funny)
Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?
Re:Does Timothy Have Brain Damage? (Score:5, Funny)
Calling someone a cunt for any reason wouldn't make constructive criticism. When I use say it, it definitely isn't an attempt at anything constructive. I still love the word though.