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Microsoft Azure Outage

Microsoft Azure, the cloud computing service, is experiencing a significant outage, affecting 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.

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 various services.

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