Human error was the culprit for a November outage of the Microsoft Azure cloud storage service. The company is hoping that recent updates that automate formerly manual processes will help prevent similar outages in the future.

“Microsoft Azure had clear operating guidelines but there was a gap in the deployment tooling that relied on human decisions and protocol,” wrote Jason Zander, Microsoft vice president for Azure, in a blog post Wednesday detailing the outage. “With the tooling updates the policy is now enforced by the deployment platform itself.”

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