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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, with Microsoft acknowledging the problem on the service's status page, stating:

We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.

are among the affected services. The outage also affects websites of other businesses, including Costco and Starbucks.

This incident occurs just hours before Microsoft's earnings results announcement and follows a recent outage experienced by Amazon AWS.

Author's summary: Microsoft Azure outage affects various services.

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