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."
12 hours to update the certs? (Score:5, Informative)
The really amazing thing is that if you look at their service dashboard, it took them 12 hours to update the certificates on their site:
http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/service-dashboard/ [windowsazure.com]
They spent several hours doing "test deployments" ... while it's great to make sure you aren't going to make something worse, updating an SSL cert isn't exactly rocket science. I'd had to see how long it took to recover from a more serious service issue triggered by a software bug.
Re:Does Timothy Have Brain Damage? (Score:4, Informative)
Calling someone a cunt because they missed a typo is not constructive criticism.