Microsoft 365 and Azure outage struck Australia and New Zealand just as business rocked up for a new week

Microsoft’s cloud services have a nasty case of Monday-itis. Reg readers report that Office 365 and Azure Active Directory are both inaccessible at the time of writing. One user told us “Our organisation cannot access any apps requiring Azure AD authentication”. Others told us Office 365 is dead and that even attempts to …

[enerider]

Seems they're posting the updates on https://status.office365.com/

[Sampler]

Surprising

I wonder if this is related to a particular server, Sydney based here and not had any trouble all morning (using outlook online and an instance of Excel online too).

No mention from the rest of the office either, and, trust me, I'd hear about it....

[P. Lee]

Fortunately, because it's "the cloud" and we don't have to care where it is located, they just load-balanced ANZ users to Singapore and California and everyone carried on without noticing the problem, right? right?

Yeah... thought so.

[Anonymous Coward]

Having used Outlook 365 for the first time recently, I'm struck by how unreliable it is compared with Gmail. None of that matters though because reliability assessments before purchase don't apply to Microsoft.

[a_yank_lurker]

Was is it ever reliable? </snark>

[ecofeco]

Sssoooo

How's that cloud thing working for you?

I will never get tired of posting this.

[Pascal Monett]

Great status page, guys

Didn't know there was an issue, and neither did you until the tweets started.

You might want to ensure that you know your actual status in the future. Could help in detecting problems before the users do.

[a_yank_lurker]

Re: Great status page, guys

The Rejects of Redmond must be relying on user telemetry to tell them they have a problem much like they do with Bloat10 (not).

[Denarius]

back up

my NSW stuff works at least, complete with MS advice of all is now well. The reliability and resilience of the Cloud, full failover, no need for on site IT staff etc. Not

[RM Myers]

Management is comfortable in "The Cloud"

Just remember, a cloud is the same as fog - just higher up. And most management has always been in a fog.

[razorfishsl]

Yep...

went thru this when they wre setting up infrastructure in Asia When 365 was a glint in the Devils eye.

They continually lied about outages, covered up security issues, blocked DNS requests..., and al i got was a load of shit from management about how my incompetence could net keep the systems working after they spent so much money on them...

esp. as their sales staff had a meeting and said there was nothing wrong with their systems, after telling me they were having region "teething troubles"

So I hate M$ with a vengeance,

[Neoc]

"Cloud" isn't just processing; "Cloud" also includes data. And you can't load-balance data overseas, especially when there are laws that state "You shall locate our data within our border".

So unless these Cloud Providers (and I'm not singling ANYONE - they're all guilty) have proper redundancy within geographical/legal areas, this is going to keep happening.