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 ...

Microsoft says a mishap during a DNS migration was behind a nearly two-hour Azure outage on May 2, between 19:43 and 22:35 UTC. The global incident impacted a whole range of Microsoft cloud services, ...

I'm fairly new to IT and networking, so please bear with me if I am unable to explain this issue correctly. I'm the IT Manager in a department of one for a startup with about 30 employees. We're ...