Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service provided by Microsoft, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
The problems started around noon ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the issue on the service’s status page, stating
We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.
The company has not indicated when service will be restored. This outage occurs 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.