Microsoft blames Aussie data center outage on staff strength, failed automation.

Microsoft has blamed staff strength and failed automation for a data center outage in Australia that took place on August 30, disabling users from accessing Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power Platform services for over 24 hours. In a post-incident analysis report, Microsoft said the outage occurred due to a utility power sag in Australia's East region, which in turn "tripped a subset of the cooling units offline in one data center, within one of the Availability Zones.". [Extracted from the article]