Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform services has surged by more than 775% during the coronavirus outbreak

During the coronavirus epidemic, most industries were affected or even some of them went bankrupt, but Internet-related industries benefited from remote work.

At the same time, more and more companies rely on public cloud computing services during the coronavirus epidemic, which has also led to an exponential growth in the services of public cloud computing platforms around the world.

For example, Microsoft ’s Microsoft Azure cloud computing platform has seen a surge in services of 775%, and Microsoft is working to maintain platform stability and avoid failures.

In the latest blog, Microsoft said that where regulations and partitions are being implemented, Microsoft’s cloud computing service usage has begun to surge and reach unprecedented levels.

For example, in northern Europe, western Europe, southern England, central France, eastern Asia, southern India, and southern Brazil, Microsoft has repeatedly experienced high service peaks.

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The good news is that Microsoft has arranged multiple teams to be on duty and maintain service availability, so Microsoft has not experienced any major service outages so far.

However, Microsoft also acknowledges that due to the heavy usage in these regions, the availability of some of its services is “observing deployments for some compute resource types in these regions drop below our typical 99.99 percent success rates.”

In the blog, Microsoft also introduced service restrictions on some of its own services such as Xbox Live, Microsoft Teams, etc. to ensure that all services run smoothly.