Cloud as a Story - Vunvulea Radu

Looking back, the 19th of July 2024 was challenging for customers using Microsoft Azure or Windows machines. Two significant outages affected customers using CrowdStrike Falcon or Microsoft Azure computation resources in the Central US. In today's article, we’ll focus on the Microsoft Azure outage. These two outages affected many people and put many businesses on pause for a few hours or even days.   CrowdStrike Outage A faulty CrowdStrike update affected Windows computers globally, from airports and healthcare to small businesses, affecting over 8.5m computers. Even if the Falson Sensor software defect was identified and a fix deployed shortly after, the recovery took longer. In parallel with CrowdStrike, Microsoft provided a tool that helped customers fix the issue.   Azure Storage Outage in Central US Region Around the same time, customers running their businesses in the Central US Region started to notify availability, connectivity issues, or service management failur