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Major Microsoft Outage

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Xbox Live And Teams are down. Not sure what else is affected.

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partiallypro
Same here, everything is down. Azure, Office, Bing, etc.
dengorilla
Where were you located?
partiallypro
Nashville. I got a notice on my Azure Dashboard that East and East 2 were effected. So I'm sure it was mostly an east coast/southern problem.
nitinreddy88
Everything is working fine for me (from India). Able to access outlook, teams and Azure resources.

Could it be ISP issue in any region?!

zachberger
All fine for me. In Mountain View, CA.
hew
Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).
mashi
I'm not affected at all lol.
slg
HN is weird. 5 of the 6 comments in this thread at the time of posting are all talking about whether it is or isn't down for them. This is the only one that is downvoted and it has been downvoted multiple times. It's probably due that single "lol" at the end.
yodon
With the lol and general construction that comment is easy to read as a snarky and unhelpful "Micro$oft $uckz I'd never use it" comment where the other comments read more clearly as "I checked and it appears to not be down here"
trhway
It doesn't have geography to be minimally informative.
Semaphor
My comment does and it’s even further down ;)
robjan
I didn't vote you down but the comment was a bit ambiguous. It's not clear whether "nothing here" means "no access" or "no problems".
Semaphor
I felt "Nothing here" was good enough vs "Same here". Guess not. Fuck those people. Thanks :)
yodon
The problem with "Nothing here" is the ambiguity - does that mean "no issues here, the service is up" or "no availability here, the service is down"?
[dead] techntoke
When Microsoft services are built around the Windows platform and the experts are used to using GUIs to configure them, you are destined to have outages. Linux services are built with automation and microservices in mind and are much easier to integrate into scalable solutions like Kubernetes.
kevingadd
Teams works here in the SF bay area, so does the XBox win10 app. Probably a regional services outage
stedman_rh
Outlook and Teams working fine for me in Los Angeles.
excalibur
Judging by downdetector MS had some issues from ~10pm - 11:30 Eastern. Seems to be better now.
latentpot
Legit question, if it is a regional issue, can using a VPN to another Geo be helpful here in getting access to the affected services?
viraptor
Yes/no. It depends how the services are distributed. For example if this is actually one region that has the issue and your data is stored there, accessing another region's gateway won't help you. But if the service is completely replicated / distributed and it's only the networking of your closest pop that failed, then a VPN helps.
Thorrez
Even if it's not completely replicated a VPN might help. For example maybe the local frontends are broken but the local backends are fine. Or maybe the problem is the BGP routes are bad between your ISP and your local frontends, but the BGP routes from your ISP to your VPN and your VPN to the frontends near the VPN are fine.
vladvasiliu
Outlook online / Teams / Azure seem OK in France.
tus88
Australia said nah mate, all good down here.