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Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services

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

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

We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change triggered this issue.

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

Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage affecting multiple services.

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