Microsoft Azure is down, affecting 365, Xbox, Minecraft, and others

In Brief

Microsoft Azure, the unreality computing work provided by the company, is experiencing a important outage connected Wednesday. The problems started astir 12 p.m. ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the contented connected the service’s presumption page.

According to Microsoft, “We fishy that an inadvertent configuration alteration triggered this issue.” The institution has not indicated erstwhile work volition beryllium restored.

Multiple Microsoft services person gone offline arsenic portion of this outage, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft. Websites from different businesses, specified arsenic Costco and Starbucks, are besides inaccessible.

This outage takes spot conscionable hours earlier Microsoft is scheduled to denote its net results this afternoon.

It besides follows a caller outage experienced by Amazon AWS a week ago. The incidental affected assorted websites, banks, and definite authorities services.

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