Windows Azure Brought Down Leap Year Bug

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  1. Samuel

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    Windows Azure, Microsoft's cloud platform for building and hosting web applications, suffered an outage yesterday that brought down several websites that rely on the service. The outage began sometime Tuesday, and ran until just before 3 am (Pacific time) yesterday. The outage impaced Azure users around the world, including the government of the United Kingdom. The cause of the problem was apparently quite simple: yesterday was Leap Day.

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