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[1]. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and even Minecraft[2].
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, customers and Microsoft services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced issues resulting in latencies, timeouts and errors. We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue… Customers may have experienced problems accessing the Azure management portal.
The Azure support page says Microsoft doesn’t have an ETA for when it will finish rolling back the change that may have caused the outage.
At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s status account on X[3] said the company is investigating reports of “issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center.” A Microsoft 365 update posted[4] at 1:02PM ET said the company “identified portions of internal infrastructure that are experiencing connectivity issues,” and that it’s working to “reroute affected traffic to restore service health.” Meanwhile, Xbox’s status page[5] isn’t even loading.
The outage goes beyond Microsoft’s services, as Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines say they are[6] “currently experiencing a disruption to key systems, including our websites” due to issues with Azure. The airlines advise customers to see an agent at the airport to get their boarding pass if they can’t check in for their flight online.
Community Fibre, an internet provider in the UK, similarly confirmed that some customers[7] may be experiencing issues due to the Microsoft outage. Additionally, Kroger is telling[8] customers that its site and mobile apps are “experiencing an unexpected outage,” while Starbucks’ and Costco’s websites aren’t loading, and users are reporting issues with Capital One.
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[9] 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[10] and UK say[11] they’re unable to access Azure’s portal.
References
- ^ AWS took out swaths of the internet (www.theverge.com)
- ^ even Minecraft (x.com)
- ^ account on X (x.com)
- ^ update posted (x.com)
- ^ Xbox’s status page (support.xbox.com)
- ^ Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines say they are (x.com)
- ^ confirmed that some customers (x.com)
- ^ Kroger is telling (x.com)
- ^ spiking on DownDetector (downdetector.com)
- ^ in the US (www.reddit.com)
- ^ UK say (www.reddit.com)