Microsoft's latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
TL;DR
- Microsoft experienced a day-long global outage due to a cascading software issue affecting numerous servers.
- The outage impacted services like Outlook, Teams, cloud services, Copilot AI, and Defender security software.
- System administrators were unable to access internal dashboards and features.
- Recovery efforts began Friday morning, with services gradually restoring after about 18 hours of downtime.
- Microsoft stated there was no evidence of malicious activity associated with the incident.
- This incident follows a similar major outage in September affecting Microsoft's cloud services.