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"System checks that at least one redundant path remains healthy before maintenance begins." Automation Bug: "Hold my beer, removing both." 😅 Jokes aside, it's wild how a bug in a request conversion parser can still take down a massive chunk of a major cloud provider's WAN. When the status dashboard (Admin Center) and your threat response tools (Defender) go dark due to the same routing failure, your MTTR naturally plummets. Outages happen, but an automated maintenance request bypassing basic pre-flight safety checks in a production environment at Azure’s scale is a massive wake-up call for the industry