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Microsoft Teams suffered a short but disruptive service degradation on February 17, 2026, that blocked some users in Europe and the United States from joining meetings, signing in, and sending messages with inline media — Microsoft traced the problem to a degraded subsection of Teams’ caching...

The end of October’s back-to-back hyperscaler failures — an AWS DNS/DynamoDB disruption followed by a Microsoft Azure Front Door misconfiguration — exposed how a handful of control‑plane primitives can turn routine changes into multi‑hour, high‑visibility outages, and underscored the operational...

Microsoft engineers declared Azure services restored after a widespread global outage that began on October 29, 2025, bringing Microsoft 365, Xbox Live, the Azure Portal and thousands of third‑party websites to a crawl before a staged rollback and traffic rebalancing returned services to normal...

Microsoft’s continued push for open and standardized observability has taken a big leap forward, as Azure Logic Apps (Standard and Hybrid) and Azure Functions introduce support for OpenTelemetry, the open-source observability framework that has become a de facto standard for tracing, logging...