A global technology outage grounded flights, knocked banks offline and media outlets off air in a massive disruption that affected companies and services around the world.
Article has been updated with the root cause - Crowdstrike. The reason is simple: Azure has tons of Windows systems that are protected with CrowdStrike Falcon. Crowdstrke released a bad version that is causing boot loops on Windows computers, including Windows VM servers.
Microsoft, Azure, and Crowdstrike have all stated the root cause at this point. Furthermore, this tells me most of the Falcon sensor installs are done bad, as we also use Crowdstrke and have ours set to “latest version - 1” to ensure this exact thing doesn’t happen.
There aren’t any backbone outages right now that are being discussed. Many servers that run MANY services are on Windows, using Crowdstrike. Flights, banks, entertainment (some Netflix, for example).
The overall result: it looks like a backbone outage, but isn’t.
Article has been updated with the root cause - Crowdstrike. The reason is simple: Azure has tons of Windows systems that are protected with CrowdStrike Falcon. Crowdstrke released a bad version that is causing boot loops on Windows computers, including Windows VM servers.
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Microsoft, Azure, and Crowdstrike have all stated the root cause at this point. Furthermore, this tells me most of the Falcon sensor installs are done bad, as we also use Crowdstrke and have ours set to “latest version - 1” to ensure this exact thing doesn’t happen.
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There aren’t any backbone outages right now that are being discussed. Many servers that run MANY services are on Windows, using Crowdstrike. Flights, banks, entertainment (some Netflix, for example).
The overall result: it looks like a backbone outage, but isn’t.
Thank you.
But, fuck. That means we screwed up primary design or someone broke the contract.
Gotta work today.