
What you need to know
- Microsoft's Azure data center infrastructure suffered an outage yesterday.
- Services powered by Azure systems suffered downtime, including banks, and other major businesses. Microsoft's own services like Outlook were also disrupted.
- Microsoft was quick to mitigate the outage, and today, issued an explanation for the downtime.
- A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack triggered the initial outage, but then Microsoft amplified the issues with a faulty mitigation measure.
- Microsoft apologized for the downtime.