Summary: Microsoft confirmed that an Azure outage in late September was caused by a problem with the fire suppression system at its data centre in Ireland. ‘Inert fire suppression agent’ was released unexpectedly during routine maintenance, causing the data centre’s air handling units to automatically shut down (as they are supposed to). Some European customers were unable to access Azure services for seven hours as a result.
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