Why would any company as big as Microsoft choose to centralize software services so much that if something goes wrong, it effects everyone around the world?

Still ongoing, I haven't been able to access my personal outlook email for 12+ hours and as a result can't access my accounts that use email 2FA, including my virtual medical appointment!

Along with the daily Github outages recently, it's making me do an audit of my dependence on Microsoft.

I remember there was a comment from a MSFT-er talking about how unreliable Azure is. Combined with AI coding, is the whole thing collapsing under its own complexity and weight?

How is this not a bigger news? It's been on and (mostly) off for 14 hours.

Microsoft decided to give a 1 day off globally to all Enterprise customers.

Thank you!

half our monitoring went dark for like an hour before anyone even noticed it was upstream not us

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