Admittedly I’m not super clear on this but I thought Microsoft stopped really generally offering O365 via ER and it’s now on “special request only”?
“Free peering” is “Direct connectivity” FWIW. MMC > On 21 Nov 2019, at 4:50 pm, Chad Kelly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah for a small team Express Route would be overkill. > Most providers on this list should have direct connectivity though > As an example Vocus connects directly in both Sydney and Melbourne and so do > Telstra. > Microsoft are putting a significant amount of effort into their partner > network they want partners to get end customers onto the CSP platform, so > support for the products should increase significantly over coming months. > This is also ware a multi cloud strategy comes in handy, its more aimed at > enterprise customers, but prevents the issue of a single point of failure if > one service falls over completely. > > > Chad Kelly > Manager > CPK Web Services > Phone 03 52730246 > Web https://www.cpkws.com.au > > From: Brad Peczka <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:40 PM > To: Chad Kelly <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Microsoft cloud issues? > > Microsoft have publically and openly acknowledged that they had an issue > yesterday with their network platform. > > > > The fact that you did not receive calls from your customers may not > necessarily indicate the absence of an issue; in fact, I'd say it indicates > an increasing acknowledgement and (sadly) acceptance of outages with cloud > services in general. What would have once resulted in system admins and > support staff getting strips torn off them for services being down is now met > with little more than a knowing nod and "Ahhh. We should let the team know > about that". > > > > It's also worth noting that direct connectivity to Azure or AWS is great for > some businesses, but not applicable or suitable for others - nor is it a > guarantee of being unaffected by these kind of issues. As an example, a small > 5 person business that relies on 365 for email hosting cannot, and should not > have to, in most cases procure an ExpressRoute just to get connectivity to > their email or presence platform. > > > > But hey, that's what happens when you put all your eggs on someone elses > computer(s). > > > > Regards, > > -Brad. > > > > > > From: AusNOG <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Chad Kelly > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> > Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2019 11:53:30 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues? > > On 11/21/2019 12:00 PM, [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: > > > We just had a 8 hour issue with no emails yesterday > > I was at the Microsoft Head Office in Melbourne yesterday and was still > able to recieve mail fine. > > I'd say some of these issues were specific to certain networks. > > I didn't get any urgent calls from customers either. > > Microsoft have connectivity directly with most ISPs in Au now a days. > I'd suggest not relying on free peering. > > I'd get direct connectivity. > > As for Teams for corporate use I would suggest running a Hybrid Cloud > environment for it. > > I did notice some delays to email on Tuesday night but none of our stuff > was down totally. > > Regards Chad. > > > > > -- > Chad Kelly > Manager > CPK Web Services > Phone 03 5273 0246 > Web www.cpkws.com.au <http://www.cpkws.com.au/> > > _______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog > <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog>_______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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