Azure Cloud Outage caused by network error, egg on my face

 

imageOh don’t you hate it when you are all smug and think you are right.  Walk into the room to make a big announcement about how great you are, and then someone points out that you are wrong, and you know it.

Well, this is one of those times.  I talked about the Amazon Outage on Friday, April 22, 2011, not knowing that there had been a six hour outage.  Mary Jo Foley pointed this out on her blog at:

https://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/whether-its-amazon-or-microsoft-theres-still-no-foolproof-cloud/9269

Thank you Mary Jo Foley!

Then someone from the Azure Cloud team twitted:

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Sooo, Clem, I did.  So here is me, if I had any hair on my head, with egg on my face: