Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services
Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, impacting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
The issue started around noon ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the problem on its status page, stating:
We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.
Multiple Microsoft services, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft, have gone offline. Other businesses, such as Costco and Starbucks, are also experiencing website outages.
This incident occurs just hours before Microsoft's scheduled earnings announcement and follows a recent outage experienced by Amazon AWS last week.
Author's summary: Microsoft Azure outage affects various services.