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Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services

Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, impacting services like Microsoft 365, Xbox, and Minecraft.

The issue started around noon ET, and Microsoft has acknowledged the problem on the service's status page, stating:

We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.

The company has not indicated when the service will be restored.

Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage.

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