ZDNet

Microsoft: Here's what caused our Azure cloud-computing outage

Microsoft has revealed the root cause of the recent outage affecting Azure, which lasted about an hour and was due to a surge in Domain Name System (DNS) requests coupled with a code defect. Users ...
InfoQ

Microsoft Refreshed Windows Azure with Point-to-Site, Dynamic DNS, Remote PowerShell and Ruby SDK

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Datacenter Dynamics

Microsoft suffers intermittent Azure outage over DNS resolution issues

Microsoft cloud services were impacted late on Thursday 2 May after a Domain Name System (DNS) configuration error. Between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC, Azure and other ...
Neowin

Microsoft Azure customers get hit by global DNS outage [Update]

Microsoft's Azure status page indicates that users of the service have been hit by a worldwide DNS outage that is impacting a "subset of customers". The outage was reported at 11:48 UTC today, ...
Redmond Magazine

How To Change the DNS Settings of an Azure VM

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it ...