The September 2018 Azure South Central US Incident

The Microsoft analysis and post-mortems, followed by some press coverage of the Azure South Central US 'incident'.

• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/history/
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vsoservice/?p=17405
• https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/opinions/hit-azure-outage-watch-out-hurricane-florence/
• https://rcpmag.com/articles/2018/09/11/microsoft-cloud-outage-postmortem.aspx
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• https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/09/17/azure_outage_report/
• https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-south-central-u-s-datacenter-outage-takes-down-a-number-of-cloud-services/
• https://www.techrepublic.com/article/five-lessons-from-microsofts-azure-cloud-outage/
• https://hub.packtpub.com/why-did-last-weeks-azure-cloud-outage-happen-heres-microsofts-root-cause-analysis-summary/

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