Microsoft Azure has hit its fullest capacity, woes UK customers

Microsoft’ s public cloud Azure has hit its full rack space capacity in the UK data centers that host many businesses. According to the company’ s insiders, Microsoft rents Data Centre space in London and Cardiff from third party providers. These data centers are struggling to meet the local demand.

This has brought a cloud of gloom among the UK customers. " We are trying to deploy a development environment on Microsoft Azure and have been told we couldn' t as it has reached full capacity," said one customer. He also added that " Microsoft wanted us to go for a Canadian Data Centre, which we can' t as the data has to stay in Europe."

Some customers have also added that there was less computing power at the UK sites, so the data had to be moved to the northern Europe, but this was not possible as Europe isn’ t the ideal location to access their respective data. Customers who need large amount of computing power along with highly complex workloads are the worst affected.

Customers are vying for Microsoft executive officials to buy more servers in third-party data Centre, but Microsoft remains without any concrete solution.

A Microsoft spokesperson said about their stand in this matter, " Demand for our cloud offerings in the United Kingdom has been growing rapidly and we are continuing to increase the available capacity to accommodate an expanding customer base."

Simon Hansford, CEO at UKCloud, a British service provider, said Microsoft had made no major investment in data Centres locally but had set up " beach heads to get over the PR issue.

Hope this problem gets resolved soon as cloud is being relied on by small to large sized businesses.