Hoff posted some nice comments on the Azure's failure regarding patching the infrastructure used by cloud services. An interesting conclusion about it is that future patching mechanisms will have to be integrated to VMotion-like features, in a way that when you apply an OS patch to the infrastructure it can dynamically deal with that without disrupting the service. It would be something like this:
Patching the cloud - Azure failure
Patching the cloud - Azure failure
Patching the cloud - Azure failure
Hoff posted some nice comments on the Azure's failure regarding patching the infrastructure used by cloud services. An interesting conclusion about it is that future patching mechanisms will have to be integrated to VMotion-like features, in a way that when you apply an OS patch to the infrastructure it can dynamically deal with that without disrupting the service. It would be something like this: