Microsoft 365 outages prove cloud services are only one glitch away from chaos, and they still don't have a backup plan for the internet

Microsoft 365 becomes Microsoft 364.

I feel like I’m living in “Groundhog Day” these days: huge server infrastructure goes down and knocks out essential internet services for people, the reason exposes a risk of concentrating too much of said infrastructure in one location, I rant about it and the problem happens again.

Well, the thing just happened again. Microsoft’s services went down — taking out 365, Outlook, Teams and Azure with it. And would you look at that! The root cause is “a portion of service infrastructure in North America” that just so happened to knock out the planet.