Microsoft 365 outage recovery continues across regions, backlogs remain
Microsoft reported progress restoring its cloud services after a widespread outage, citing improvements across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. The company said some users may still face intermittent access problems and delayed email delivery as mitigation efforts continue across the remaining affected infrastructure.
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An outage of this scale affecting multiple regions simultaneously highlights how dependent businesses and consumers have become on a handful of cloud providers for everyday services like email. Comparisons to earlier major outages at Amazon and CrowdStrike, as noted by at least one expert cited in the report, suggest growing scrutiny of how resilient these critical infrastructure providers actually are.
- Microsoft reported recovery progress in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific after an outage.
- Some users may still experience delayed email delivery and intermittent access during mitigation.
- The incident has drawn comparisons to previous major outages at Amazon and CrowdStrike.
Source: tech.slashdot.org, 2026-11-13
Published there as: “Microsoft's Global Outage May Be Worse Than Amazon's Or Crowdstrike's, Expert Says”
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