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This week's Azure outage in Southeast Asia took down Dynamics 365 Business Central customers, too

by Jason Gumpert
Editor, MSDynamicsWorld.com

Microsoft reported a serious outage at a data center in its Southeast Asia region earlier this week, caused by cooling systems taken offline by a utility power surge. The issue (Tracking ID: VN11-JD8) forced engineers to take compute and storage units offline until cooling was restored, and the impact on downstream systems appears to have included many Dynamics 365 Business Central instances in the region, including production systems.

As the outage propagated to BC instances, users and consultants took to social media to check on the breadth of the outage, with some noting that it was also affecting Microsoft 365 and lasted for hours.

In a message to customers, Microsoft wrote:

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About Jason Gumpert

As the editor of MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason oversees all editorial content on the site and at our events, as well as providing site management and strategy. He can be reached at jgumpert@msdynamicsworld.com.

Prior to co-founding MSDynamicsWorld.com, Jason was a Principal Software Consultant at Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC), where he implemented solutions, trained customers, managed software development, and spent some time in the pre-sales engineering organization. He has also held consulting positions at CSC Consulting and Monitor Group.

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