Microsoft 365 fixes regional outage: Services restored in Japan and China; what caused disruption

Microsoft 365 services in Japan and China have been fully restored after a widespread outage disrupted essential tools like Outlook and Teams. A routing fault within Microsoft's infrastructure caused intermittent login failures and slow performance for hours. Engineers successfully rebalanced traffic, resolving the issue with no data loss reported.

Microsoft 365 fixes regional outage: Services restored in Japan and China; what caused disruption
Microsoft 365 services in Japan and China have been fully restored after a widespread outage disrupted essential tools like Outlook and Teams. A routing fault within Microsoft's infrastructure caused intermittent login failures and slow performance for hours. Engineers successfully rebalanced traffic, resolving the issue with no data loss reported.