
"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?