Microsoft Outage: 7 Major Tech Outages in recent years

Microsoft Outage: 7 Major Tech Outages in recent years by priyanka roshan | july 19, 2024

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X Corp Outage

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Outage

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META Outage

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Akamai Outage

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Fastly Outage

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Google Outage

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British Airways Outage

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