back to article Five-hour Azure wobble

Microsoft's Azure endured a five-hour brownout on Thursday. Microsoft says "SQL Databases hosted in Multiple Regions may have experienced issues performing Service Management Operations" between 01:45 and 06:47 UTC. The incident meant "Retrieving information about SQL servers and databases through the Azure Management Portal …

  1. hplasm
    Facepalm

    Did they have to...

    ...turn it off and on again?

  2. steamrunner

    Hmmm... they did an update that affected the same service in *multiple* regions at once? I thought that was the point of having multiple regions; that if one broke, it wouldn't affect the others. *slaps forehead*

  3. Captain DaFt

    Henceforth

    I shall refer to Azure as "a raspberry jelly".

    Because it's blue and wobbles every time they poke it.

  4. Trevor_Pott Gold badge

    A) "phased roll out"

    B) 5 hours to notice and roll back?

    C) R.I.P. QA.

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