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/>
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