Just in case your head wasn’t in the clouds last week, you may have missed this story: the Microsoft Azure Cloud went down for hours, ostensibly as a result of a hacker attack, but in reality the side-effect of an expired SSL certificate. And if that weren’t bad enough, the SSL certificate snafu kept the site down for 12 hours.

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