5 Jun 2012
Windows Azure Downtime – February 2012
Windows Azure Cloud users experienced a service disruption and performance problems during 8 hours. Datacenterknowledge reports this outage on Fevruary 29th 2012. Some Azure-based services were totally offline as shown on the Windows Azure Service Dashboard.
Microsoft announced on Windows Azure Disruption update that “ The issue was quickly triaged and it was determined to be caused by a software bug. While final root cause analysis is in progress, this issue appears to be due to a time calculation that was incorrect for the leap year.”
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 Date  | 
 Service  | 
 Duration  | 
 Critical Data Lost  | 
| 2012-02-29 | Windows Azure | 8 hours | No |