Airlines companies have issued advisories to their passengers regarding delays in services due to this outage. Services of airlines like Indigo, Akasa and SpiceJet are closed in India.
The whole world has come to a standstill due to the outage of Microsoft Cloud. The main reason for this is that all the banks, businesses, airlines around the world are dependent on cloud servers. Due to Microsoft Cloud being down, hundreds of flights across the world including India, America, Australia have been canceled and the timings of many have been changed.
Airlines companies have issued advisories to their passengers regarding delays in services due to this outage. Let us tell you that most of the companies are using cloud servers and at present there are three major companies providing cloud services which include Microsoft, Amazon and Google. Let us know what has been affected by the Microsoft Cloud outage.
On this outage, Delhi Airport said, “Due to the global IT outage, some services at Delhi Airport were temporarily affected. We are working closely with our partners to minimize inconvenience to our passengers. Passengers are requested to They should be in touch with the airline.”
Services of these airlines stopped
Services of IndiGo, SpiceJet and Akasa Airlines have been affected in India. Apart from India, services of big airlines in America like Frontier, Allegiant and SunCountry have come to a standstill due to Microsoft cloud outage. Due to this outage, all the services of airlines companies like booking, check-in, boarding, web check-in have been affected.
Stoppage from banks to business
Due to Microsoft cloud outage, the work of many banks of the world has also come to a standstill. Apart from this, those businesses which were dependent on cloud have also been affected. Websites of many media houses are also reported to be down. Due to this, IT networks of many businesses have been affected.
Problems being caused by CrowdStrike
Actually, this outage is not directly caused by Microsoft, but due to the downfall of CrowdStrike, a platform that provides cyber security services to Microsoft PCs and many companies. CrowdStrike provides advanced cyber security solutions to Windows PC. Due to CrowdStrike being down, many countries around the world including India, America, Canada, Japan are affected. CrowdStrike said in a statement on its website that it is aware of reports of crashes on Windows hosts related to Falcon Sensor and that its engineers are continuing to work on a fix.
what is cloud computing
Cloud computing is a computer facility that provides servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics and intelligence services. For these services, customers’ computers are connected to the cloud server through the Internet. In return for services, customers have to pay. The purpose of these services available through the internet is to provide facilities in a fast and easy manner.
How did the world’s technology come to a standstill?
According to the report of American media house New York Times, the problem is caused by a company named Crowd Strike. This is a company related to cyber security. Microsoft takes its services.
Its software is used worldwide. So that the system can be protected from hackers and any kind of intrusion. According to reports, the problem started when Krause Strike was updating the software.
