An error has taken down a string of high-profile web services for the second time in a little more than a week.Users across the world started reporting problems with multiple Microsoft services early this morning, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Azure, Xbox and the popular video game Minecraft.
Microsoft Azure, the company’s massive cloud computing platform, said it started experiencing issues about 3am, blaming an “inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event”.
Microsoft Azure, the company’s massive cloud computing platform, said it started experiencing issues about 3am, blaming an “inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event”. (AP)The “critical” issue was affecting network infrastructure in every region of the provider’s global network, Azure said in a status update.
The provider said it was blocking all changes to the affected part of its service, Azure Front Door, and “rolling back to our last known good state”.
“We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed, but we will update this communication within 30 minutes or when we have an update,” Azure said.
American users have reported problems with a range of services from shopping sites such as Costco to Alaska Airlines and Starbucks.
In Australia, the Downdetector reports appeared mostly limited to Microsoft services but that was possibly due to the hour the outage hit.
Users across the world started reporting problems with multiple Microsoft services early this morning, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Azure, Xbox and the popular video game Minecraft.
Much like AWS, Azure is a massive cloud computing platform that owns data centres which various companies large and small use to outsource their services.
It hosts so much of the web that problems can have enormous impacts.
