<story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>m0zg</author><text>&amp;quot;A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn&amp;#x27;t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.&amp;quot; -- Leslie Lamport. I feel this should be rephrased for cloud computing at this point. The more people rely on cloud, the more these global fuck-ups are going affect them. Makes me feel pretty good about that server rack in my garage that addresses most of my own (and my business&amp;#x27;) compute needs.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Azure data deleted because of DNS outage</title><url>https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/02/01/dns-outage-turns-tables-on-azure-database-users/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cddotdotslash</author><text>Sounds like they built a dead-man&amp;#x27;s switch and then broke the process through which the man and the switch communicate.</text></comment>