Microsoft has revealed the root cause of the recent outage affecting Azure, which lasted about an hour and was due to a surge in Domain Name System (DNS) requests coupled with a code defect.

Microsoft has revealed that Thursday's worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. At approximately 5:21 ...

You can run the same code on premises and burst to Azure to handle spikes in demand. Or host the same applications on AWS and Azure and use a global DNS service to route users to the appropriate ...

Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud ...

Two years earlier, in April 2021, a code defect triggered a global outage that impacted many Microsoft services because of overloaded Azure DNS servers. Last month, Microsoft also reverted a ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.

Runbooks are created in Azure Automation’s built-in text editor or through a graphical editor. The text editor has a similar look and feel to Visual Studio Code, with support for IntelliSense ...

The Azure cloud computing platform is dominating news coming out of the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2020 developer/IT pro event, even extending to low-code application development with the company's ...