Microsoft‘s Azure, one of the world’s biggest cloud service providers, is suffering outages, triggering widespread internet disruptions across major companies.
According to Downdetector, problems began around 11:30am ET, with reports surging from users who could not access cloud-connected services, websites or apps.
The outage appears to be affecting dozens of platforms that rely on these cloud networks, including Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco and Kroger.
Even popular developer and data tools like Blackbaud and Minecraft are showing connectivity issues.
Downdetector has received nearly 20,000 issue reports from Azure users in the US.
The Microsoft outage comes just days after Amazon Web Services disrupted ‘half the internet.’
The incidents have raised concerns about how much of the global online infrastructure depends on these two companies, which host everything from retail and entertainment platforms to business operations and cloud storage.
Frustrated users have flooded social media to vent, with one post on X reading: ‘First AWS, now Azure goes down. I love it when big companies own half the internet!!!’
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