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Microsoft Azure Outage Affects Multiple Services

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

The issue started around noon ET, and according to Microsoft's status page,

"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 outage experienced by Amazon AWS.

Author's summary: Microsoft Azure faces significant outage.

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