A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365

Microsoft Azure, the company’s unreality computing service, is experiencing an outage conscionable 1 week aft issues with AWS took retired swaths of the internet. The issues look to beryllium impacting Microsoft’s services that tally connected Azure, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, and adjacent Minecraft.

Microsoft confirmed Azure Portal issues connected the service’s presumption page, adding that the outage started astir 12PM ET:

Starting astatine astir 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting successful availability degradation of immoderate services. Customers whitethorn acquisition issues accessing the Azure Portal. We person taken enactment that is expected to code the portal entree issues present shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying contented and further mitigation actions. More accusation volition beryllium provided wrong 60 minutes oregon sooner.

 At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s presumption account connected X said the institution is investigating reports of “issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center” without specifying the problem. Meanwhile, Xbox’s presumption page isn’t adjacent loading.

The outage comes conscionable hours earlier Microsoft is acceptable to study its net results this afternoon. The Verge reached retired to Microsoft with a petition for much accusation but didn’t instantly perceive back.

Reports of issues with Azure began spiking connected DownDetector astatine astir 12PM ET, coinciding with reports of an outage crossed Microsoft 365 and Xbox. It seems the outage whitethorn beryllium global, arsenic immoderate Reddit users based in the US and UK say they’re incapable to entree Azure’s portal arsenic well.

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