you need to hear this if you're a tech Enthusiast Microsoft's Cloud had a major Hiccup and here's why it matters so picture this you're working away and suddenly everything grinds to a halt that's what happened when Microsoft Azure went down globally the culprit a Dos attack but wait there's more Microsoft's defense system designed to fight off these attacks actually made things worse pause for effect in instead of blocking the attack it went Bonkers and overloaded azure's Network this led to slowdowns errors and a whole lot of frustrated users across the world to fix it Microsoft had to reconfigure their Network and switch to backup routes it took hours but they finally got things back to normal this incident shows just how tricky and important Cloud security really is so next time you save to the cloud remember even Tech Giants have their off days don't forget to like subscribe and hit that notification Bell for more text stories from the trenches