ever notice how Tech fails at the worst times well the recent Azure outage is a perfect example let's dive into what happened this week Microsoft Azure a cloud service that many businesses rely on went down the reason a huge distributed denial of service or dos attack for 9 hours users of Microsoft 365 Azure app services and more dealt with errors timeouts and slowdowns so what went wrong Microsoft's dods protection kicked in but a configuration error made things worse instead of better imagine setting up a security system that opens all the doors instead of locking them at first Microsoft thought it was just a traffic Spike but soon realized it was a Cyber attack they've promised to be transparent with a preliminary post incident review in 72 hours and a detailed final report in 2 weeks this Azure outage shows that even Tech Giants can have hiccups stay tuned for more updates on how they plan to beef up their defenses um