Microsoft Fabric: Outages, Misinformation, and a Lack of Transparency
2025-05-19
Microsoft's Fabric data analytics platform suffered another major outage last week, lasting for hours across multiple continents. However, Microsoft's official status page consistently showed everything as normal, leading to user outrage. Reddit users relied on third-party tools to track the outage, revealing significant discrepancies between Microsoft's reports and the reality on the ground. The response time was far longer than the actual event duration. Worryingly, Microsoft's post-mortem reports were vague, downplaying the impact and even hiding the history of outages. The author questions Fabric's lack of a service-level agreement and refunds, suggesting that its current popularity stems primarily from user ignorance.
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