{"id":2854,"date":"2012-07-27T11:25:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/jul\/27\/three-strikes-and-out-microsoft-twitter-google-clouds-suffer\/"},"modified":"2012-07-27T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T11:25:23","slug":"three-strikes-and-out-microsoft-twitter-google-clouds-suffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/three-strikes-and-out-microsoft-twitter-google-clouds-suffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Three strikes and out? Microsoft, Twitter, Google clouds suffer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a pretty heavy week for the cloud, with three major providers suffering outages of varying severity, giving us another reminder that no cloud is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&rsquo;s Windows Azure cloud was down across Western Europe for approximately two and a half hours, with a flag on the Azure service dashboard stating:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the situation was eventually resolved with full service functionality restored. Similar problems were experienced in the West US region concerning management degradation; this took just over four hours to rectify.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&rsquo;t the first time Windows Azure has felt the wrath of the cloud gods. Back in February Microsoft&rsquo;s cloudy outing was down for several hours, and during &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s been a pretty heavy week for the cloud, with three major providers suffering outages of varying severity, giving us another reminder that no cloud is perfect.<br \/>\nMicrosoft&rsquo;s Windows Azure cloud was down across Western Europe for approxima&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}