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Post-mortems
What actually broke, why, and what it means for your business continuity plan - every major Azure incident, explained clearly.
An allowlist configuration error on Azure Storage scale units made storage unavailable across an availability zone in Central US. Because Virtual Machines cannot run without their disks, the failure cascaded into VMs, dependent Azure services, and Microsoft 365 for many hours - landing in the same week as the unrelated CrowdStrike incident.
9 min read
Layer-7 DDoS attacks - attributed by Microsoft to the actor it tracks as Storm-1359 - flooded the web front ends of the Azure Portal, Outlook on the web, and OneDrive across several days in early June 2023. Authentication and portal access failed intermittently, showing how an attack on web tiers reads as an identity outage to the business.
8 min read
During a planned router addition to Microsoft’s global WAN, a command with unintended effects caused routers to forward packets incorrectly worldwide. Azure, Teams, and Outlook were disrupted globally - worst for roughly 90 minutes - with full recovery within hours after the change was rolled back.
8 min read
A name-server delegation change made during a planned Azure DNS migration disrupted resolution for Microsoft services globally. Because DNS sits in front of everything, customers could not reach Storage, SQL Database, and Microsoft 365 even though those services were themselves healthy - for roughly three hours.
7 min read
Guides
Evergreen business-continuity playbooks written from real Azure incident patterns.
What availability zones protect you from, what only region pairs can, why some newer Azure regions ship without a pair, and how to choose the right geographic resilience strategy per workload - grounded in real Azure incidents.
10 min read
A practical BCP framework for Azure: business impact analysis, RTO/RPO tiering, Azure’s resilience primitives (zones, region pairs, Site Recovery, Backup), the compliance drivers (ISO 22301, DORA, SOC 2), and the identity single-point-of-failure most plans miss.
13 min read
For IT leaders
The resources our enterprise readers use in audits, board briefings, and DR reviews.
The complete hub: BIA and RTO/RPO tiers, Azure’s resilience primitives, compliance drivers (ISO 22301, DORA, SOC 2), and a five-step implementation path with game days.
Read the pillar guide →Instant incident alerts with affected services and regions - brief your stakeholders before the ticket queue does - plus the gated BC/DR guide download for your team.
Get the briefing →Instant email alerts the moment an Azure incident is detected - with the affected services and regions, not a vague status tweet.
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