Microsoft Azure, including Office 365, Minecraft, X-Box Live, Copilot and many other services, was down for thousands of users on Wednesday due to issues with its domain name system.
The tech company said it was “investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where customers may be experiencing issues accessing the portal”.
Azure was down for more than 16,600 users, and Microsoft 365 was down for nearly 9,000, according to Downdetector, which tracks online outages.
Microsoft said it was reviewing reports of an issue impacting Azure and services, including an impact on the Microsoft 365 admin center and other services.
Microsoft 365 Status posted on X: “We’ve identified a recent configuration change to a portion of Azure infrastructure which we believe is causing the impact. We’re pursuing multiple remediation strategies, including moving traffic away from the impacted infrastructure and blocking the offending change.”
Amazon’s AWS cloud service faced an outage last week, which caused global chaos on thousands of sites, including some of the web’s most popular apps, such as Snapchat and Reddit.
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