Microsoft Cloud Outage Hits Millions Of Users Worldwide

Microsoft Corp. was recently hit with a networking outage that took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook, potentially affecting millions of users globally, Akriti Sharma reported for Reuters.

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Azure's status page showed services were impacted in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa.

Only services in China and its platform for governments were not hit. An outage of Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure can impact a variety of services and create a domino effect as almost all of the world's largest companies use the platform.

"We've determined the network connectivity issue is occurring with devices across the Microsoft Wide Area Network (WAN)," Microsoft said.

This impacts connectivity between clients on the internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in data centers, it said. Microsoft added in a tweet it had rolled back a network change that it believed was causing the issue.

"We're monitoring the service as the rollback takes effect," it said.

Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the disruption, but data from outage tracking website Downdetector showed thousands of incidents distributed across continents.

The Downdetector site tracks outages by collating status reports from sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

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