Azure, Xbox and Outlook Suddenly Went Down
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Microsoft's Azure cloud services have been fully restored after a widespread outage caused by a configuration error in Azure Front Door. The disruptio
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines' website and app is experiencing significant technical issues less than a week after an IT outage caused hundreds of flights to be canceled. At 9:10 a.m. Wednesday, Alaska said, "Our website and app are down, it is being looked into we don't have any other information at this time I am so sorry for the inconvenience."
Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its domain name system
Azure was down for more than 16,600 users and Microsoft 365, which includes Outlook and Teams, was down for nearly 9,000. Other impacted sites include the mobile phone operator O2, Heathrow Airport and the bank Natwest.
Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365 , Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates that Microsoft first observed technical issues around 12PM ET.
An outage at Microsoft's Azure and its suite of productivity software, affecting a range of industries worldwide, had begun to ease, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.