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Airlines, banks, and more suffered downtime, causing chaos for customers and billions in losses globally.

Alas, that’s what happened.

Server farm

Azure is one of the world’s biggest cloud services, and is frequently the target of state-backed cyber attacks.

Email access and other systems like authentication services failed, causing another spree of widespread disruption.

Microsoft was fairly quick to rectify the issue, thankfully, and has today offered a broaderexplanation.

Microsoft Azure

Azure is one of the world’s biggest cloud services, and is frequently the target of state-backed cyber attacks.

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