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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by ericfrederich on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:39PM (#50473024)
An estimated 2.6 million pre-orders for Xbox alone. 2.6 million people downloading 200+ GB is not nothing.

If they roll it out evenly the week prior, then today (1/7th) is just 75 PB. To get that done in a single day would require a sustained 6.9 Tbps.

I'm sure this is all handled by a CDN at some level... but again it's not nothing.

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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by zamadatix on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:56PM (#50473277)
It is bsacially nothing once you remember the cloud isn't one computer either. I want to say Azure was already 4 million (beefy ass) severs over 5 years ago, and not all of them & their associated bandwidths are assigned to the same sets of services.
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Re:Outlook is down, and so is Microsoft's status page by miyuru on Friday November 13, 2026 @03:21AM (#50480087)
At that traffic, ISP level cache servers matter more than centralized clouds "(beefy ass) severs.
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