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

Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services

Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.

Websites from other businesses, such as Costco and Starbucks, are also inaccessible.

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.

Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage.

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