Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.
The issues started around noon ET, with Microsoft acknowledging the problem on the service's status page, stating:
We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.
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 outage affects various services.