Microsoft has been having a day. Their online suite of tools for businesses, including email, went down yesterday and as of this morning is still not up. I have to wonder how much involvement AI has in the issue. And, what is going on with the formatting of their status page messages?
Microsoft service health status:
Current status: Recovery efforts are ongoing across impacted infrastructure. We are seeing early signs of stabilization, but service capacity has not yet returned to normal levels and health remains variable as traffic is carefully reintroduced.Our primary mitigation path continues to focus on service stability and controlled recovery. Engineering teams are cycling affected infrastructure through traffic drain, restart, remediation, and staged return-to-service while monitoring closely. We are also evaluating additional mitigation options to improve recovery speed and consistency. Network and traffic-management actions remain in progress, and we continue to prioritize backlog and queue health to preserve delayed mail during recovery. As part of this effort, we are extending the email timeout window to 48 hours to help protect delayed messages while service recovery continues. At this time, we are not aware of any malicious activity causing this incident. We will continue to treat this with urgency until full mitigation, and we will share a full Post-Incident Report with root cause and defense-in-depth actions after recovery is complete.
This somewhat reminds me of the CloudFlare outage earlier this year. I wonder if Microsoft’s “Post-Incident Report” will be as detailed as CloudFlare’s when this is all said and done.