Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services
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
We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.
- Multiple Microsoft services have gone offline, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
- Websites from other businesses, such as Costco and Starbucks, are also inaccessible.
This outage occurs 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.