Azure & Active Directory Center

The old chestnut question “If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is surprisingly relevant in the world of cloud collaboration software. Maybe the modern version would be “if a service falls in the cloud and I don’t notice it, is it still an outage?”

On December 3, Microsoft had an outage that affected their Office 365 service for customers in most of Europe. More precisely, the outage was actually in Azure Active Directory.