Microsoft down — LIVE updates on Azure, 365, Xbox and Minecraft outage

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Microsoft Azure’s status page has a new update showing that the team there is trying to get back to a version that wasn’t facing issues. However, it appears to be partially working and the rollback may not be ready yet:

We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue. We are taking two concurrent actions where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services and at the same time rolling back to our last known good state.

We have failed the portal away from AFD to mitigate the portal access issues. Customers should be able to access the Azure management portal directly.

We do not have an ETA for when the rollback will be completed.

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Since the solutions message appeared on Azure reports on Down Detector have taken a steep drop.

Here’s the thing, though, other servics from Microsoft like Minecraft and Xbox are going up.

Additionally, places that use Azure like Starbucks are still totally down. Starbucks.com is inaccessible as of this writing.

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Azure, unlike AWS, has more government contracts and business ones. Though it does power some services like Walmart.

Have you noticed a degradation of service because of the Microsoft problems today?

Let us know by emailing me at scott.younker@futurenet.com

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I am seeing a drop in reports on Down Detector.

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Microsoft has acknowledged the outage on the Azure status page. Here’s what it currently says:

Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. Customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly. We are actively investigating the underlying issue and additional mitigation actions. More information will be provided within 60 minutes or sooner.

It seems to be a similar problem that affected and is affecting AWS. Unlike that outage, Microsoft’s appears more global.

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Simultaneously, Amazon Web Services has gone down again. Specifically the US-Region-1 site.

We’re already seeing that impact on multiple services.

If the internet isn’t working for you today, these simultaneous outages may be why.

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Here’s what Microsoft-owned services we’ve seen so far as having issues.

We’re certain there are more plus other companies that use Azure like Starbucks but this is what we’ve specifically seen spike at the moment.

Microsoft 365Microsoft AzureMicrsoft CopilotMicrosoft EntraMicrosoft StoreMicrosoft TeamsMinecraftXbox

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We first started seeing reports on Down Detector start spiking around 9 a.m. Pacific.