Marks & Spencer website is down. Not a cyber attack this time, but apparently Azure having DNS problems means they have switched off the whole M&S website.
Why is a UK company 100% dependent on a US cloud provider with no fallback plan (e.g. serve a static site with at least a working store finder using Google Maps or something)?
Paul
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2025-10-29 18:53:14 UTC
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