Microsoft fiber foul-up cut off Azure California for almost five hours

A bug in Microsoft's maintenance automation system incorrectly removed network routes from additional devices during routine fiber maintenance, severing Azure West US region from its wide-area network for nearly five hours and degrading 27 services. The outage was resolved by rolling back the changes; Microsoft's safety checks failed to catch the routing error before impact.

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