{"id":248607,"date":"2025-10-29T20:23:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/248607\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T20:23:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T20:23:05","slug":"microsofts-cloud-services-firm-azure-hit-with-outage-says-customers-should-see-improvement-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/248607\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s cloud services firm Azure hit with outage, says customers should see improvement soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Azure users may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with the cloud service, the tech giant said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The company posted a note on its Azure status page that its teams are currently investigating issues related to its Azure Front Door service, and that customers should begin to see &#8220;initial signs of recovery&#8221; soon.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment, but the company acknowledged the issues on the page and its social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Because so many sites and services use Microsoft&#8217;s cloud service, an outage like this one can have widespread results.<\/p>\n<p>Users reported issues with Office 365, Minecraft, X-Box Live, Costco and Starbucks&#8217;s mobile apps and websites, Copilot and many other services on Downdetector, a website that tracks online outages.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s Azure troubles come just over a week after a massive outage of Amazon&#8217;s cloud computing service took down a broad range of online services, including social media, gaming, food delivery, streaming and financial platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The issues began hours before the company is set to release its quarterly earnings report.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is the dominant provider of cloud computing services but Microsoft ranks second, ahead of Google, in most markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure users may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-248607","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}