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Why did so many services fail?
Microsoft's services like Teams and Outlook often rely on the same underlying cloud infrastructure. When a batch of servers went offline unexpectedly, as mentioned in the story, it created a domino effect. This single point of failure overloaded the remaining system, causing widespread disruption across multiple applications globally.
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