Cloud Computing: Windows Azure outage hits Europe
July 26, 2012
Grazed from GigaOM. Author: Barb Darrow.
Just in time for the Olympics, there’s a Windows Azure outage in Europe.
A flag posted at 11:09 UTC on the Windows Azure dashboard:
“We are experiencing an availability issue in the West Europe sub-region, which impacts access to hosted services in this region. We are actively investigating this issue and working to resolve it as soon as possible. Further updates will be published to keep you apprised of the situation. We apologize for any inconvenience this causes our customers.”…
According to an update posted one hour later, the troubleshooting and data gathering continued.
This is just the latest reminder that while the cloud offers customers great scale and potential cost savings, not even the largest, most well financed public clouds are immune from downtime. Windows Azure experienced a widely publicized “Leap Day” outage in early March. Amazon, the largest public cloud provider, was hit by several outages at its U.S. east data center over the past few months.