Microsoft Azure outage update: What we know about crash disrupting the internet

An apparent Microsoft Azure outage shut down significant portions of the internet on Wednesday.

The tech giant’s cloud computing service has confirmed it is experiencing issues.

Wrote Azure on its status page:

“Starting around 16:00 UTC, we started experiencing issues with Azure Front Door (AFD), resulting in loss of availability of some services. We suspect that an inadvertent configuration change is the triggering event for this issue.

We take several actions simultaneously: First, when we block all changes to AFD services, this also includes customer configuration changes. At the same time, we return our AFD configuration to our last known good state. »

Azure has since updated that it has “started deploying our last known good configuration, which is expected to complete within 30 minutes.” As this rollout progresses, customers should begin to see the first signs of recovery.”

Microsoft wrote that it did not have an estimate of when the problem would be resolved.

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Issues reported by users on Downdetector indicated that people were having problems 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.)

Around 2:30 p.m. ET, user-reported issues for some services appeared to be trending downward, but it was still unclear whether the issue was fully resolved. The outage comes just days after last week’s massive Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage that took down large swathes of the internet.

Azure provides cloud services to many companies and platforms, meaning it hosts data, websites, and provides key infrastructure for large parts of the Internet. Azure also crashed earlier this month, taking out Microsoft services such as 365 and Outlook.

This story is developing and will be updated as necessary…