A massive Microsoft Azure outage is taking down Xbox and 365
Microsoft Azure, the company’s cloud computing service, is experiencing an outage. The issues appear to be impacting Microsoft’s services that run on Azure, including Microsoft 365 and Xbox.
Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. Customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying issue and additional mitigation actions. More information will be provided within 60 minutes or sooner.
At 12:25PM ET, Microsoft 365’s status account on X said the company is investigating reports of issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center,” without specifying the specific issue. The Verge reached out to Microsoft with a request for comment but didn’t immediately hear back.
Reports of issues with Azure began spiking on DownDetector at around 12PM ET, coinciding with reports of an outage across Microsoft 365 and Xbox. It seems the outage may be global, as some Reddit users based in the US and UK say they’re unable to access Azure’s portal as well.
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