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2 years ago
Banks and Airlines also affected. How can Azure not have a back up plan for this happening.
“A utility power surge in the Australia East region tripped a subset of the cooling units offline in one data centre, within one of the Availability Zones,” the vendor said in a post-incident report.
“While working to restore cooling, temperatures in the data centre increased so we proactively powered down a small subset of selected compute and storage scale units, to avoid damage to hardware.