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The spotlight has once again been shone on the prominent role played by a small number of cloud computing providers after an outage suffered by Microsoft’s Azure platform
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The outage began on Wednesday and was eventually resolved but not before a number of high-profile brands reported problems with their online services and apps.
The affected companies included airlines, gaming companies and retail brands. While the financial services sector remained relatively unscathed, difficulties were reported at NatWest, according to DownDetector, the independent agency that monitors outages.
The issue involved a DNS issue that affected Azure Front Door, Microsoft’s cloud-based delivery content system.
The outage came just days after AWS, the cloud provider with the biggest market share, suffered a similar problem that caused more widespread disruption to online services, including several banks and financial and government organisations.
Consequently, attention has turned to the dependency on a heavily concentrated number of cloud providers. Microsoft Azure and AWS jointly account for more than half (55%) of the cloud compputing market with AWS the dominant player with a 32% share.
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