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Microsoft Azure and 365 Outage Impacting Global Businesses Eases
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•Source: Reuters
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TL;DR
Microsoft Azure suffered a global outage impacting services like Microsoft 365 due to a configuration change, disrupting operations for entities like Alaska Airlines and Heathrow Airport. Downdetector showed thousands of user-submitted reports of issues before Microsoft announced improvements and aimed for full resolution by 7:20 p.m. ET.
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Key takeaways
- Microsoft's Azure services experienced a global outage, impacting productivity software and various industries, according to a Reuters report
- The company attributed the disruption to a recent configuration change within its Azure infrastructure
- The outage affected critical systems for organizations, including Alaska Airlines, Heathrow Airport, and Vodafone
Microsoft's Azure services experienced a global outage, impacting productivity software and various industries, according to a Reuters report. The company attributed the disruption to a recent configuration change within its Azure infrastructure.
The outage affected critical systems for organizations, including Alaska Airlines, Heathrow Airport, and Vodafone. Downdetector reported user-submitted issue reports peaking at over 18,000 for Azure and nearly 11,700 for Microsoft 365 before a decline. Microsoft indicated "strong signs of improvement" in a status update and anticipated "full mitigation" by 7:20 p.m. ET. This incident follows a recent service disruption at Amazon AWS.
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