Azure networking snafu enters day 2, some services still limping

Microsoft on Friday warned Azure cloud service users may continue to experience "intermittent errors," blaming the problem on a US East regional networking service configuration change.

The outage, which began around 2200 UTC on January 8, was "limited to a single zone in the East US 2 region," according to Redmond. "A network configuration issue in one of the zones resulted in three of the Storage partitions going unhealthy," reads an Azure status alert. 

As a result, customers experienced "intermittent Virtual Machine connectivity issues, failures in allocating resources or communicating with resources in the region."

Affected services include Azure Databricks, Azure Container Apps, Azure Function Apps, Azure App Service, SQL Managed Instances, Azure Data Factory, Azure Container Instances, PowerBI, VMSS, PostgreSQL flexible servers, and others, plus customers using resources with Private Endpoint Network Security Groups to communicate with other services.

In an attempt to remediate the problem, Microsoft said it ...