Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region
theregister.co.ukA problem with resources for virtual machines is still affecting users in Azure's East US region after more than a week, frustrated admins have told us, despite Microsoft saying the incident is now resolved.
Customers using this Microsoft Azure cloud region experienced allocation failures when attempting to create or update virtual machines. The troubles began on July 29, and were supposedly rectified by August 5.
According to details seen by The Register, the issue was caused by a sudden spike in demand for compute resources in the East US region, leading to service management operations failing due to insufficient capacity being available.
The resource pool for General Compute instances became highly constrained, affecting all associated sets in the region. This surge in utilization actually pushed hardware beyond safe operational thresholds, according to Microsoft, which prevented successful virtual machine allocations.
Such problems only appeared to affect a handful of instance ...
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