Microsoft Azure, together with Workplace 365, Minecraft, X-Field Stay, Copilot and lots of different providers, was down for hundreds of customers on Wednesday attributable to points with its area identify system.
The tech firm mentioned it was “investigating an issue with the Azure Portal where customers may be experiencing issues accessing the portal”.
Azure was down for greater than 105,000 customers, Downdetector, which tracks on-line outages, mentioned on X. It mentioned Microsoft 365 was down for almost 9,000 customers.
Microsoft mentioned it was reviewing stories of a difficulty impacting Azure and providers, together with an affect on the Microsoft 365 admin middle and different providers.
Amazon’s AWS cloud service confronted an outage final week, which brought about world chaos on hundreds of web sites, together with a few of the net’s hottest apps, equivalent to Snapchat and Reddit.
