The Time it Wasn't DNS

Abstract

In January of 2023, the Microsoft Azure Wide Area Network experienced a global outage. If you were a Microsoft customer at the time, you were impacted by this outage. Sean walks us through the numerous factors - events and conditions - that contributed to the outage and explains why it's not always DNS. (Spoiler: sometimes it's BGP)

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Sean Klein

Principal Technical Program Manager - Modern Incident Analysis @Microsoft Azure

Sean Klein has been involved with post-incident activities for the better part of two decades. He currently leads the Production Livesite Review program for Microsoft Azure implementing modern incident analysis methodologies to more effectively learn from our most impacting incidents and outages. Previous to Microsoft, Sean worked with Salesforce as well as private consulting. He is a proud member of the Resilience in Software Foundation. 

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Date

Wednesday Nov 19 / 03:55PM PST ( 50 minutes )

Location

Ballroom BC

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