Microsoft says Azure outage was caused by ‘anomalous’ traffic spike

Microsoft said that a recent connectivity issue affecting its Azure cloud platform was caused by an abnormal increase in HTTP requests, shortly after a hacking group claimed to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the service. In a preliminary review of the incident published on Tuesday, the tech giant said the flood in requests

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