The public cloud is not the magic potion of the Cure.

This morning, there was a massive outage in Windows Azure China Data Center (Shanghai), which is still not fully functional. Post one of the most serious downtime events since Windows Azure landed in China.

Domestic and foreign major public cloud vendors have been down, and each outage event in the industry caused a public cloud security controversy. Public cloud vendors will not hesitate to seize every outage event to launch a sharp marketing campaign. In a flash, a variety of soft text overwhelming flying out ...

There is no cure-all panacea in the world. Cloud computing, although the forefront of the current IT field, the most fire technology. But its foundation is still rooted in traditional it technology. Its underlying core technology system does not have a qualitative (fundamental) change. "Green Insect Butterfly", butterfly's gene still originates from Qinghai insect. The power supply will still be broken down, the disk will still appear bad blocks, the network will still cause transmission interruption due to line problems ... Mountain or that mountain, Liang or that beam, mules do not have a pony.

Downtime is normal, downtime is not scary, downtime will not become a cloud computing weaknesses and dead points.

After the outage, as long as you can find the root cause of the problem, quickly solve the problem, in the shortest possible time to restore service is responsible for the customer.

Timely and transparent disclosure of information is also a reassurance to customers. Click here to see the real-time Windows Azure Service Dashboard

You want this outage of Windows Azure to recover as quickly as possible without user data loss. Good Luck, Windows azure!

The public cloud is not the magic potion of the Cure.