China is not impacted by the worldwide Microsoft outage

While the worldwide countries are affected by the Microsoft outage, China, on the other hand, has been saved as its cloud services are run by a Chinese partner, 21Vianet. Because of China's legislative framework, international cloud services must be run locally, insulating Microsoft's offerings from concerns with global infrastructure. There were no reports of significant infrastructure failures in China.

According to a report in the South China Morning Post, amid the global outage, China remained predominantly unaffected, according to industry sources and social media posts. There were no reports of China facing any major infrastructure breakdowns. The international airports in Beijing and Shanghai, as per their website, were operating normally.

Microsoft's China website and social media channels avoided issuing any emergency notices as China's public services remained mostly unaffected due to the outage.

The main reason why the Microsoft outage did not affect China is because Microsoft's cloud services in the country are mostly operated by local partner 21Vianet. Due to China's regulatory provision that makes it compulsory for foreign cloud services to be run by domestic companies, their set-up is largely separate from Microsoft's global infrastructure.

This makes the configurations and functions of Microsoft's services in China distinguishable and protected from issues affecting other parts of the world. This separation is one of the main reasons why Microsoft's services remained largely unaffected in China despite causing major disruptions in other parts of the world.