When Azure Goes Down: What Northamptonshire Businesses Can Learn About Cloud Resilience
Microsoft Azure suffered a high-profile outage recently, right as everyone was watching their quarterly earnings. Teams, Loop, Microsoft 365 authentication, and even the Microsoft website itself were impacted.
As always, the familiar reaction surfaced: “See? This is why cloud can’t be trusted!”
But that’s the wrong takeaway.
The truth: every system fails – cloud or on-premise
When a local server in Northampton fails, only your office suffers. When Microsoft Azure fails, millions of people see it.
But the cause is almost always the same: Human error, exactly what Microsoft confirmed this time.
The real lesson: resilience matters
Your business should be asking:
- Can we authenticate if Microsoft 365 goes down?
- Do we have offline access to critical files?
- Is our cloud environment designed with failover?
- Can our team communicate if email or Teams drops?
If your plan is simply, “Wait for Microsoft to fix it,” you don’t have a resilience strategy, you have a hope strategy.
We Help Northamptonshire Businesses Stay Operational Even When Azure Doesn’t
Our local MSP team builds real-world continuity plans for SMEs, including:
- Backup MFA routes
- Multi-path authentication
- Hybrid failover options
- Offline file and communication processes
Book a Cloud Resilience Review to protect your business from the next Microsoft outage.