Microsoft keeps quiet amid talk of possible DDoS attack against Azure

Microsoft has provided comment on an "anomalous spike" in Azure traffic at the end of last week, which sparked several hours of service disruption. The incident took place between 15:10 and 17:10 UTC on June 9 when customers faced error notifications when trying to access the Azure portal, and also affected other services …

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

"Readers may have some sympathy with Microsoft over the latest Azure service degradation – particularly if it was attacked – but there was likely less understanding over a previous outage of Microsoft Azure DevOps, a line of application lifecycle services that was downed for 10 hours by a typo."

A typo is unfortunate and can happen to anybody. So can a DDoS attack. It does say a lot for Micros~1 that they are (at least giving the appearing of) being honest about this, but the fact that configuration errors keep downing Azure, and that they don't appear to have thought about the possibility of a DDoS attack on the status pages does somewhat erode my sympathy for them.

Where's the "something's up here but I can't tell what" icon?

[Gordon 10]

This seems likely

Both my company and Missus O365 went squiffy about this time last week.

[TimMaher]

I think it was a break away group.

Anonymous South Sudan?

[Craig 2]

Re: I think it was a break away group.

Splitters!

[Mayday]

Could be why

LinkedIn is being shitter than normal today. I'm missing all the sanctimony by the minute.

[CR]

În Romania, on 9th of June, a subscription program for solar panels was ongoing, backed up by the government. Some 4000 euros, for 3kw installed power was offered.

The state agency ran the web appliance on Azure. Later, on 12th of June, they called of "detected problems" on that day, also because of DdoS.