Microsoft's cloud service Azure hit by significant global downtime

Microsoft's cloud service Azure hit by significant global downtime   Microsoft's cloud computing service, Azure, has experienced one of its biggest outages, one that affected a significant part of its customer base globally and lasted for five hours.According to Microsoft's dashboard, the interruptions started at 17:49 UTC and included "Cloud Services, Virtual Machines Websites, Automation, Service Bus, Backup, Site Recovery, HDInsight, Mobile Services and possible other Azure Services in multiple regions". Read more >