Microsoft has blamed staff strength and failed automation for a data center outage in Australia that took place on August 30, disabling users from accessing Azure, Microsoft 365 , and Power Platform services for over 24 hours. In a post incident analysis report, Microsoft said the outage occurred due to a utility power sag in Australias East region, which in turn “tripped a subset of the cooling units offline in one data center, within one of the Availability Zones.” As the cooling units wer
