Microsoft Azure, the corporate’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage. The problems seem like impacting Microsoft’s providers that run on Azure, together with Microsoft 365 and Xbox.
Beginning at roughly 16:00 UTC, we started experiencing DNS points leading to availability degradation of some providers. Clients could expertise points accessing the Azure Portal. We’ve got taken motion that’s anticipated to handle the portal entry points right here shortly. We’re actively investigating the underlying problem and extra mitigation actions. Extra data will likely be supplied inside 60 minutes or sooner.
At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s standing account on X stated the corporate is investigating experiences of points accessing Microsoft 365 providers and the Microsoft 365 admin heart,” with out specifying the particular problem. The Verge reached out to Microsoft with a request for remark however didn’t instantly hear again.
Experiences of points with Azure started spiking on DownDetector at round 12PM ET, coinciding with experiences of an outage throughout Microsoft 365 and Xbox. It appears the outage could also be international, as some Reddit customers based mostly in the US and UK say they’re unable to entry Azure’s portal as nicely.