It's not a DDoS. You would have heard about it or seen evidence. Their servers are just being swamped.
It's not a DDoS. Microsoft's servers wouldn't be vulnerable to a DDoS, just because of the spread and redundancy. At least not vulnerable to one that regular citizens are able to do.
It's some sort of failure at their DNS server(s) from the looks of things.
So I work at a help desk and our company uses Office 365.
Getting mass calls about email being down. :|
mort redeemed?
on my 360 i got a message saying " some content is unavailable" No Ads on the homepage but my friends list works and im playing FIFA online..
Microsofts Azure Cloud Computing System Hits Bumps, Taking Down Xbox Live And Other Services
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/mi...mps-taking-down-xbox-live-and-other-services/
360 still good.
Does MS run all their own services on the Azure infrastructure? If yes than this would explain the width of the problem...
Microsofts Azure Cloud Computing System Hits Bumps, Taking Down Xbox Live And Other Services
http://techcrunch.com/2013/11/21/mi...mps-taking-down-xbox-live-and-other-services/
The Register has a story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/1..._again/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Microsoft's business customers are dropping offline as their Azure cloud is dying (which hosts Xbox Live)
i dont believe that the volume of new xbox live players from new zealand is causing all of azure to go down, so this must just be some unrelated issue. But dat timing...