Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure

Azure SQL Database caused some annoyance over the weekend with admins on the US east coast unable to connect to the service following a network infrastructure power failure. The disruption started at 07:33 UTC on September 16 and wasn't fully mitigated until more than 12 hours later at 21:38, Microsoft confirmed on its status …

[Jim Willsher]

" Subsequently, the remaining SQL DB instances was brought back online got bring survives to full functionality.""

Either Microsoft or El Reg needs to employ a proof-reader. There's also "power power" further up, and another typo.

[Lee D]

This forum page was 404 for several minutes after article posting too, not to mention that I just saw another article with raw HTML spludged into the article text near a link.

[Lee D]

People keep trying to tell me that they must have cloud services.

In other news Office 365 is often down, Exchange Online can be a nightmare, Azure has all kinds of problems, the Google Cloud has its spats, and my former-workplace are apparently spending tens of thousands on YET-ANOTHER leased line because they are so desperately dependent on the Internet being up 24/7 for ... well... a school. So not exactly the kind of high-stakes, always-on place you really expect to see that. But they can't possibly tolerate anything going wrong, which since they went entirely cloud dependent appears to happen about once a month on a regular basis.

As IT, I don't mind. Because with that change comes the same old caveat: I cannot manage or provide any guarantees about a third-party service. You're free to go this way. My life becomes easier the more you push off to anonymous entities in the cloud on expensive subscriptions.

And if you can't get to their services, 99% of the time I can do absolutely nothing about that. The other 1% you will pay 300% of the cost of your IT services overall trying to eliminate before you give up and realise that you just have to accept some downtime, even if that takes years to realise, I suspect.

Please, move all your stuff to the cloud. I will ensure you have access to a browser. That's my job done. And then you can try to yell at me when things don't work, but if you can successfully get on Google or BBC News... that's me done, mate.