Multiple organisations including the Central Provident Fund Board, EZ-Link, the Esplanade and Nanyang Technological University saw disruptions to their web services on Wednesday as a result of the outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud service.
Microsoft Azure said on its website that a utility power surge in the South-east Asia region at 3.19am on Wednesday had tripped a subset of the cooling units in a data centre and brought them offline. Azure said it “proactively powered down a small subset of selected compute and storage scale units” to minimise the damage to hardware, but was unable to say when services would be restored, as an extended period would be needed to restore cooling capacity.Nearly all of Azure’s services in the South-east Asia region were reporting issues, a check by The Straits Times found on Wednesday evening.
The websites belonging to the CPF Board, EZ-Link, the Esplanade and NTU all pointed to Azure’s outage as the reason for their service interruptions.
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