A major global Microsoft 365 outage disrupted email, Teams, and Copilot services worldwide, impacting government agencies and businesses across the US, Australia, Singapore, and Japan. Microsoft attributed the incident to elevated server loads rather than a cyberattack.

Cybersecurity expert Dennis-Kenji Kipker warned that the disruption exposes the critical risks of over-reliance on a single cloud vendor, renewing calls for greater digital sovereignty and multi-provider redundancies.