Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage just one week after issues with AWS took out swaths of the internet. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft.
Microsoft confirmed Azure Portal issues on the service’s status page, adding that the outage started around 12PM ET:
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. In addition. customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. Customers can attempt to use programmatic methods (PowerShell, CLI, etc.) to access/utilize resources if they are unable to access the portal directly.
At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s status account on X said the company is investigating reports of “issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center” without specifying the problem. Meanwhile, Xbox’s status page isn’t even loading.
The outage comes just hours before Microsoft is set to report its earnings results this afternoon. The Verge reached out to Microsoft with a request for more information but didn’t immediately hear back.
Reports of issues with Azure began spiking on DownDetector at around 12PM ET, coinciding with reports of an outage across Microsoft 365 and Xbox. It seems the outage may be global, as some Reddit users based in the US and UK say they’re unable to access Azure’s portal as well.
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Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/809142/microsoft-azure-xbox-365-is-down-outage
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