Actually for enterprise customers standard NBN speed is  not an issue.
As they would be using the enterprise class connectivity or another Fiber 
network.
You can use Hybrid connectivity and host the services yourself.
Microsoft have a shared responsibility model, when it comes to data loss, so it 
is up to partners to make sure clients are protected.
If you look after stuff that is mission critical you shouldn’t really just rely 
on the one cloud provider.
Now obviously if it’s a small business with only a few employees then a Hybrid 
cloud or a multi cloud strategy isn’t going to work, but certainly it’s a good 
option for larger customers.
Most times you won’t need to worry, but obviously an 8 hours downtime incident 
for an enterprise customer wouldn’t be tolerated.

The point is you can’t be complacent.
Oh and Office365 isn’t backed up by default, that is the partners problem In 
fact nothing MS CSP is really backed up so you need to keep that in mind.
So if you buy direct nothing is backed up, you can recover some data for up to 
a month after you delete it but otherwise its gone.
This is fine for some customers, but not the majority.

Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
Phone 03 52730246
Web https://www.cpkws.com.au

From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <m...@mmc.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 6:20 PM
To: Chad Kelly <c...@cpkws.com.au>
Cc: Brad Peczka <b...@bradpeczka.com>; ausnog@lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

Admittedly I’m not super clear on this but I thought Microsoft stopped really 
generally offering O365 via ER and it’s now on “special request only”?

“Free peering” is “Direct connectivity” FWIW.

MMC


On 21 Nov 2019, at 4:50 pm, Chad Kelly 
<c...@cpkws.com.au<mailto:c...@cpkws.com.au>> wrote:

Yeah for a small team Express Route would be overkill.
Most providers on this list should have direct connectivity though
As an example Vocus connects directly in both Sydney and Melbourne and so do 
Telstra.
Microsoft are putting a significant amount of effort into their partner network 
 they want partners to get end customers onto the CSP platform, so support for 
the products should increase significantly over coming months.
This is also ware a multi cloud strategy comes in handy, its more aimed at 
enterprise customers, but prevents the issue of a single point of failure if 
one service falls over completely.


Chad Kelly
Manager
CPK Web Services
Phone 03 52730246
Web https://www.cpkws.com.au

From: Brad Peczka <b...@bradpeczka.com<mailto:b...@bradpeczka.com>>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 4:40 PM
To: Chad Kelly <c...@cpkws.com.au<mailto:c...@cpkws.com.au>>; 
ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: Microsoft cloud issues?

Microsoft have publically and openly acknowledged that they had an issue 
yesterday with their network platform.

The fact that you did not receive calls from your customers may not necessarily 
indicate the absence of an issue; in fact, I'd say it indicates an increasing 
acknowledgement and (sadly) acceptance of outages with cloud services in 
general. What would have once resulted in system admins and support staff 
getting strips torn off them for services being down is now met with little 
more than a knowing nod and "Ahhh. We should let the team know about that".

It's also worth noting that direct connectivity to Azure or AWS is great for 
some businesses, but not applicable or suitable for others - nor is it a 
guarantee of being unaffected by these kind of issues. As an example, a small 5 
person business that relies on 365 for email hosting cannot, and should not 
have to, in most cases procure an ExpressRoute just to get connectivity to 
their email or presence platform.

But hey, that's what happens when you put all your eggs on someone elses 
computer(s).

Regards,
-Brad.


________________________________
From: AusNOG 
<ausnog-boun...@lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-boun...@lists.ausnog.net>> on 
behalf of Chad Kelly <c...@cpkws.com.au<mailto:c...@cpkws.com.au>>
Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2019 11:53:30 AM
To: ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

On 11/21/2019 12:00 PM, 
ausnog-requ...@lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-requ...@lists.ausnog.net> wrote:

> We just had a 8 hour issue with no emails yesterday

I was at the Microsoft Head Office in Melbourne yesterday and was still
able to recieve mail fine.

I'd say some of these issues were specific to certain networks.

I didn't get any urgent calls from customers either.

Microsoft have connectivity directly with most ISPs in Au now a days.
I'd suggest not relying on free peering.

I'd get direct connectivity.

As for Teams for corporate use I would suggest running a Hybrid Cloud
environment for it.

I did notice some delays to email on Tuesday night but none of our stuff
was down totally.

Regards Chad.




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Manager
CPK Web Services
Phone 03 5273 0246
Web www.cpkws.com.au<http://www.cpkws.com.au/>

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