Recent subsea cable breaks appeared to have an outsized impact on Microsoft cloud services. What really happened?
cable breaks between South Africa and Europe appeared to have an outsized impact on Microsoft cloud services in South Africa. But more was at play.snapped under the ocean off Ivory Coast
Microsoft had an Office 365 outage affecting customers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa on specific products But why would an undersea cable outage thousands of kilometres away affect local data centre services – after all, isn’t half the point of having these facilities located in-country to avoid these types of interruptions? Also, Microsoft’s most direct rival, Amazon Web Services, which operates data centres in Cape Town, appeared to be less impacted.
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