[AusNOG] Microsoft cloud issues?

[James Andrewartha]

On Thu, 21 Nov 2019, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

> 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.

They recently announced Azure Peering Service, which offers cold potato 
routing so it stays on their network until it gets as close to your end 
users (well, a defined service provider network for a given location) as 
possible: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/peering-service/about

Although there's not many partners at the moment: 
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/peering-service/location-partners

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