> Is it some sort of spying thing? Incompetence

It’s Microsoft we’re talking about so I feel like the latter is a given, and the former is a reasonable assumption.

Jokes aside, it does seem that somehow these hyperscaler cloud providers who tout the reliability of their multiple zones and global distribution sure do seem to always have some central dependency or single point of failure. AWS for example seems to have a global outage once every year or two at this point, or like us-east-1 problems always seem to affect other zones too. You’d think with their scale these clouds would be completely decentralized and redundant but apparently not.