An apparent Microsoft Azure outage on Wednesday took down important parts of the internet.
The tech giant’s cloud computing service confirmed it was having issues.
Wrote Azure on its status page:
“Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing Azure Front Door (AFD) issues resulting in a loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.
We are taking several concurrent actions: Firstly, where we are blocking all changes to the AFD services, this includes customer configuration changes as well. At the same time, we are rolling back our AFD configuration to our last known good state.”
Azure has since updated that it had “initiated the deployment of our last known good configuration, which is expected to complete within 30 minutes. As this deployment progresses, customers should begin to see initial signs of recovery.”
Microsoft wrote that it did not have an estimated time for when it would be fixed.
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User-reported issues on Downdetector indicated people were having issues accessing Microsoft services like Outlook and 365, as well as platforms like Minecraft. (Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by Ziff Davis, the same company that owns Mashable.)
By about 2:30 p.m. ET, user-reported issues for some services appeared to be trending downward, but it was still unclear if the issue was fully resolved. The outage comes just days after last week’s massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that took down large swaths of the internet.
Azure provides cloud services for lots of companies and platforms, which means it hosts data, websites, and provides key infrastructure for large portions of the internet. Azure actually crashed earlier this month, too, taking down Microsoft services like 365 and Outlook in the process.
This story is developing and will be updated as necessary…