Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).
Same here, everything is down. Azure, Office, Bing, etc.
Where were you located?
Nashville. I got a notice on my Azure Dashboard that East and East 2 were effected. So I'm sure it was mostly an east coast/southern problem.
Outlook and Teams working fine for me in Los Angeles.
Legit question, if it is a regional issue, can using a VPN to another Geo be helpful here in getting access to the affected services?
Yes/no. It depends how the services are distributed. For example if this is actually one region that has the issue and your data is stored there, accessing another region's gateway won't help you. But if the service is completely replicated / distributed and it's only the networking of your closest pop that failed, then a VPN helps.
Even if it's not completely replicated a VPN might help. For example maybe the local frontends are broken but the local backends are fine. Or maybe the problem is the BGP routes are bad between your ISP and your local frontends, but the BGP routes from your ISP to your VPN and your VPN to the frontends near the VPN are fine.
Australia said nah mate, all good down here.
Teams works here in the SF bay area, so does the XBox win10 app. Probably a regional services outage
Judging by downdetector MS had some issues from ~10pm - 11:30 Eastern. Seems to be better now.
Outlook online / Teams / Azure seem OK in France.
All fine for me. In Mountain View, CA.
I'm not affected at all lol.
HN is weird. 5 of the 6 comments in this thread at the time of posting are all talking about whether it is or isn't down for them. This is the only one that is downvoted and it has been downvoted multiple times. It's probably due that single "lol" at the end.
With the lol and general construction that comment is easy to read as a snarky and unhelpful "Micro$oft $uckz I'd never use it" comment where the other comments read more clearly as "I checked and it appears to not be down here"
It doesn't have geography to be minimally informative.
My comment does and it’s even further down ;)
I didn't vote you down but the comment was a bit ambiguous. It's not clear whether "nothing here" means "no access" or "no problems".
I felt "Nothing here" was good enough vs "Same here". Guess not. Fuck those people. Thanks :)
The problem with "Nothing here" is the ambiguity - does that mean "no issues here, the service is up" or "no availability here, the service is down"?