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For the past 5 minutes all of our Microsoft Cloud connections are down. Anyone else? The Status page won't even load.

Ask HN: Microsoft/Azure Outage?

Ask HN thread where a user reports Microsoft Azure cloud connections down and the status page not loading, asking if others are affected.

What HN thinks

The status page needed a status page, so everyone came to the text forum that never goes down.

Blame AI and layoffs
Many suspect declining service quality is tied to layoffs and LLM-written code or config, especially brittle infrastructure code, though others say cascading infra failures are nothing new.
Downdetector debate
Some call Downdetector's crowdsourced methodology garbage because it misattributes outages to Gmail, AWS and others; defenders say it is the fastest way to tell if a problem is yours or theirs.
Cloud is still a single point
Commenters mock the status page being hosted on the failing infrastructure and note M365 has caused more Exchange downtime than some on-prem setups did in a year.

Consensus: Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint and other M365 services were broadly down, likely from a self-inflicted change to health-check processing rather than a traffic surge or DDoS.

Recommended in the comments

ThousandEyes Internet Insights ↗ (service): Offered as more accurate and faster than crowdsourced Downdetector, though it was slow to load during the outage.
OnlineOrNot ↗ (service): Suggested as a monitor that checks sites directly instead of relying on user reports.
Downdetector ↗ (service): Defenders say it quickly confirms whether an outage is widespread.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 378
Comments: 190
Best rank: #2
Posted: 2026-11-12 by nazgulsenpai
Category: DevOps & infra

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