Azure Down: Microsoft confirms outage, says investigating disruption in Office and Game apps

Microsoft has confirmed that an internal infrastructure issue has caused widespread problems, preventing some users from accessing its core Microsoft 365 business applications and various games.

The disruption, which saw a rapid spike in issue reports on the outage tracking website Downdetector shortly after 11 a.m. New York time, prompted an immediate response from the tech giant."We’re investigating reports of issues accessing Microsoft 365 services and the Microsoft 365 admin center,” the company posted on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter).Microsoft later indicated that it had identified portions of internal infrastructure experiencing connectivity issues and was actively working on recovery efforts to restore full functionality. Details on the exact nature of the infrastructure problem were not immediately provided.Incidentally, Microsoft services are facing disruption same time as outage at Amazon's cloud division Amazon Web Services. This is second major AWS outage this month. (Developing story)