Microsoft plays Tetris in the Task Manager of their massive 24TB Azure node

Home » Azure

Reading time icon 1 min. read

Calendar icon Updated on

by Surur Davids 

updated on

Share this article

Readers help support MSpoweruser. We may get a commission if you buy through our links. Tooltip Icon

Read our disclosure page to find out how can you help MSPoweruser sustain the editorial team Read more

Being the CTO of Microsoft Azure has its privileges, and that includes stress testing a 24 Terabyte Azure node by playing Tetris on it.

Of course, it’s not just any game – at this scale, it involved using the activity level of 420 virtual Xeon processors in the Task Manager as a display for the game.

Unlike the similar DOOM video, we assume we can trust Mark Russinovich not to have simply faked the result, and given that Microsoft 365 has not gone down yet today, we assume everything worked out OK.

See the video, in Russinovich’s tweet, below.

Surur Davids

Surur Davids Shield

Smartphone Expert

Surur Davids is the founder of WMPoweruser which later became MSPoweruser.com. He's a smartphone expert with over a decade of experience.

User forum

0 messages