Microsoft Azure Outage
Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting various services including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
The issue started around noon ET, with Microsoft acknowledging the problem on their status page, stating that
“We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.”
- Multiple Microsoft services are offline, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
- Websites from other businesses, such as Costco and Starbucks, are also inaccessible.
This outage comes just hours before Microsoft's earnings results announcement and follows a recent outage experienced by Amazon AWS a week ago.
Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage affecting various services.