Azure was downed for seven hours by fire alarm
 

SLA for that day down to 71.6

It’s all very well these arrogant tech firms telling us that our data is safe and always accessible in the cloud - but that’s clearly not so.

Earlier this month, Microsoft’s much hyped Azure cloud went down because somebody lit a cigarette or something and triggered a fire alarm that shut down the whole show for some hours. The official reason for a seven hours down town was: "During a routine periodic fire suppression system maintenance, an unexpected release of inert fire suppression agent occurred. When suppression was triggered, it initiated the automatic shutdown of Air Handler Units (AHU) as designed for containment and safety."

We’ve always mistrusted any tech company that says our data is safe in their hands because it’s clearly not. This is as trivial as the Chernobyl melt down, as the incident started in the same way. According to Microsoft Azure official status history the service was down between 13:27 and 20:15 UTC on 29 Sep 2017. The company calls this the "summary of impact".

http://fudzilla.com/news/44776-azure-sings-the-blues