Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services
Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
The issue started around noon ET, and according to Microsoft, "We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue." The company has not indicated when the service will be restored.
- Microsoft 365
- Xbox
- Minecraft
Websites from other businesses, such as Costco and Starbucks, are also inaccessible due to the outage.
Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page.
This outage comes just hours before Microsoft is scheduled to announce its earnings results and follows a recent outage experienced by Amazon AWS a week ago.
Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage.