Coronavirus Impact: Microsoft Cloud Services Witness 775% Hike in Usage

Microsoft has seen a huge 775 per cent increment in its Cloud services in regions that have enforced social distancing or 'shelter-in-place orders.

Microsoft Teams now has more than than 44 million daily users and they generated over 900 million meeting and calling minutes, according to Jared Spataro, Corporate VP for Microsoft 365.

"Windows Virtual Desktop usage has grown more than 3 times. Regime utilise of public 'Power BI' to share COVID-xix dashboards with citizens has surged by 42 per cent in a week," Spataro said in a statement late Sunday.

Despite the significant increase in demand, said Microsoft, it has not had any significant service disruptions.

"As a result of the surge in employ over the last week, we have experienced significant demand in some regions (Europe North, Europe Westward, UK South, France Cardinal, Asia East, India South, Brazil South) and are observing deployments for some compute resource types in these regions drop below our typical 99.99 pct success rates," said the company.

Microsoft has implemented few temporary restrictions designed to residual the best possible feel for its customers.

"We accept placed limits on costless offers to prioritize capacity for existing customers. Nosotros also have limits on certain resource for new subscriptions. These are 'soft' quota limits, and customers can raise support requests to increase these limits," informed Spataro.

Impacted customers and partners are notified through the Service Wellness experience in the Azure portal and/or in the Microsoft 365 admin eye.

On Xbox Live usage, Microsoft said it is actively monitoring functioning and usage trends.

"At the aforementioned time, we're taking proactive steps to plan for loftier-usage periods, which includes taking prudent measures with our publishing partners to deliver college-bandwidth activities similar game updates during off-peak hours," the tech giant noted.

Microsoft said it has been in discussions with several internet service providers (ISPs) that are taking measures to reduce bandwidth from video sources in gild to enable their networks to be performant during the workday.