By Yash Nitish Bajaj
Publication Date: 2026-01-22 20:59:00
Microsoft outage map: Several Microsoft services, including Teams, Outlook, and Defender, experienced massive downtime on Thursday. Downdetector, a platform that tracks online outages, showed at least 15,000 reports about Microsoft 365 at the time of writing this story.
Downdetector also showed an outage for Mimecast, GoDaddy and other applications. However, AWS’s server status page showed no issues.
“We’re investigating a potential issue impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, Microsoft Defender and Microsoft Purview. Further information can be found in the admin center under MO1221364,” Microsoft said in a statement on X, platform formerly known as Twitter.
“We’ve identified a portion of service infrastructure in North America that is not processing traffic as expected. We’re working to restore the infrastructure to a healthy state to achieve recovery,” it…
