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Microsoft's Azure cloud is grappling with an "unexpected outage" in its SQL Reporting component. The failure in the US East data-center hub began on Sunday night and meant the SQL Reporting Service suffered "service degradation" – a softie-euphemism for anything from intermittent connectivity to outright failure. "We are …

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  1. Herby
    Joke

    Repeat after me:

    Nothing to see here, please go away.

    Or at least that is what Microsoft would have you believe.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Joke

      @Herby

      Haven't you read the stories regarding the release of the Surface Pro? Microsoft have changed their strategy; there are no bugs any more, only features.

      This isn't a fail, its a sign of how extremely popular Azure really is and that everyone is using it. In fact; the outage alone is merely proof that we all should sign up because if it is so popular it has to be good, right? ;-)

      Just like the Surface; customers weren't unhappy because Microsoft released too few devices; on the contrary. The device was so immense popular that Microsoft couldn't meet the demand..

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Repeat after me:

      It's still working in both the European regions - all of our instances seem to be working OK.

      Azure might have the occasional hiccup, but it's still been a lot more reliable than AWS...

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    It runs on Windows Server

    What do you expect ?

    Coincidently it's patch Tuesday coming up so it must be those 10 reboots they have to do after patching.

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