Microsoft hit with Azure, 365 outage ahead of quarterly earnings report

Microsoft was deed with outages successful its Azure unreality and 365 services connected Wednesday, hours earlier the company's scheduled earnings release.

Users reported problems connected societal media accessing their sites and services moving connected Microsoft's products, and the company's website was inaccessible. The problems began astir 11:40 a.m. ET, according to Downdetector, which relies connected idiosyncratic reports.

Microsoft acknowledged the issues connected its Azure and 365 enactment accounts connected X.

"We're investigating an contented impacting Azure Front Door services," the Azure enactment relationship said. "Customers whitethorn acquisition intermittent petition failures oregon latency. Updates volition beryllium provided shortly."

On Azure's status page, the institution said "customers whitethorn beryllium experiencing issues accessing the portal."

Microsoft's 365 status account wrote, "We're investigating reports of issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center. More details tin beryllium recovered successful the Service Health Dashboard nether MO1181369."

The work disruptions travel a small implicit a week aft larger rival Amazon Web Services reported a major outage that took down galore large websites. Throughout the time connected Oct. 20, AWS said it observed "increased mistake rates" for customers erstwhile trying to motorboat caller instances successful EC2, its fashionable unreality work that provides virtual server capacity.

Microsoft is acceptable to study fiscal first-quarter results aft the adjacent of trading. The institution didn't instantly respond to a petition for comment.

In March, Microsoft suffered an outage implicit a weekend that near tens of thousands of users incapable to entree their Outlook email accounts and different programs.

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