Microsoft Offers Windows Azure Customers 33% Credit for Service Disruption

Microsoft is providing many of its Windows Azure customers with a 33 percent credit for the February 29 service disruption that was related to a Leap Day glitch. Bill Laing, Microsoft's corporate vice president of the Server and Cloud Division, made an official statement detailing the outage. Here's an excerpt of the statement from Laing that explains how the Leap Day bug hit Azure:

The service disruption occurred in several regions around the world and lasted until 2:57 A.M. PST on February 29, which left several customers without access to their cloud applications. Because of the "extraordinary nature" of the outage, Microsoft is providing the credit to all customers of Windows Azure Compute, Access Control, Service Bus, and Caching for the entire affected billing month, regardless of whether their service was affected. "Microsoft recognized that this outage had a significant impact on many of our customers. We stand behind the quality of our service and our Service Level Agreement (SLA), and we remain committed to our customers," Laing said.

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