Microsoft Azure was down for hundreds of customers on Wednesday as a result of points with its area identify system.
Microsoft mentioned it was “investigating a difficulty with the Azure Portal the place prospects could also be experiencing points accessing the portal”.
It later mentioned a repair had rolled out to resolve the difficulty.
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 practically 9,000 customers.
The tech firm mentioned it was reviewing experiences of a difficulty impacting Azure and providers, together with an influence on the Microsoft 365 admin middle.
A Microsoft spokesperson informed Sky Information: “We’re working to handle a difficulty affecting Azure Entrance Door that’s impacting the supply of some providers. Clients ought to proceed to verify their Service Well being Alerts and the most recent replace on this subject might be discovered on the Azure standing web page.”
On Downdetector, an internet site that tracks on-line outages, customers reported points with Workplace 365, Minecraft, X-Field Stay, Copilot, Costco, Starbucks, and lots of different providers.
Alaska Airways posted on its X account that the outage is on the coronary heart of issues affecting its methods, together with check-in providers.
The problem got here hours earlier than Microsoft was set to launch its quarterly earnings report.
Amazon’s AWS cloud service confronted an outage final week, which triggered international chaos on hundreds of web sites, together with a number of the internet’s hottest apps, resembling Snapchat and Reddit.
