Ethiopian Airlines out of action

[Flashback]

The new BSOD? Airlines can't catch a break. First missiles....... the Microsoft.

 

[kamchatsky]

Maybe a missile blew up one of Microsoft's data centres at Middle East and Africa region, and somehow the high availability failover didn't work?

 

[MEL_Traveller]

Working now

 

[Flashback]

Maybe a missile blew up one of Microsoft's data centres at Middle East and Africa region, and somehow the high availability failover didn't work?

Certain hyperscalers did have issues, as the mass amount of failing over that was occuring ..... flooded the targets.

 

[kamchatsky]

Certain hyperscalers did have issues, as the mass amount of failing over that was occuring ..... flooded the targets.

Well AWS Middle East is getting hit I would not be surprised if Microsoft have the same issue:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/amazon-cloud-unit-flags-issues-bahrain-uae-data-centers-amid-iran-strikes-2026-03-02/

AWS Middle East Outage After Data Centers Hit by Drone Strikes

Localized power issues in the UAE Region disrupted EC2, S3, RDS, and dozens of other services, with AWS warning recovery could take multiple hours.

www.datacenterknowledge.com

The key sentence is here:

“We continue to strongly recommend that customers with workloads running in the Middle East take action now to migrate those workloads to alternate AWS Regions,” AWS said.


That's huge.