Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services
Microsoft Azure, the 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 the service's 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, along with websites from other businesses like Costco and Starbucks.
- Microsoft 365
- Xbox
- Minecraft
- Costco website
- Starbucks website
This outage occurs just hours before Microsoft's scheduled 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.