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Major Microsoft Azure outage was caused by a simple typo

June 5, 2023

Via: TechRadar
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A Microsoft Azure DevOps outage in the South Brazil Region, which lasted over 10 hours, was caused thanks to a typo in the code that saw 17 production databases deleted.

Having apologized to impacted customers for the outage, Microsoft has now issued a full post-mortem, sharing details about the investigation that took place from when the outage was first noticed at 12:10 UTC on May 24, until its remedy at 22:31 UTC on the same day.

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