Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform is enduring an outage that is affecting many Microsoft services ahead of its scheduled quarterly earnings report.

Microsoft's cloud service Azure is experience technical issues that are impacting services like Microsoft 365 and Xbox.

Microsoft Azure went down globally today. Microsoft customer-facing services were affected. Recovery is expected soon. Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) went down, and many of us were miserable. This week,

The disruptions started around 12 p.m. ET, and the company said it is investigating what factors are causing the outage.

Impacted platforms included Microsoft 365, Xbox, Outlook, Starbucks, Costco, Kroger, Blackbaud, and Minecraft. Social media users vented frustration, with some highlighting the risks of centralized internet infrastructure.

Microsoft said late on Wednesday it had resolved an outage of its Azure cloud platform that had impacted the tech giant's suite of productivity software, and a range of industries worldwide.

On Azure’s status page, Microsoft’s messages have linked the outage to an “inadvertent configuration change” and DNS problem. As Microsoft reported its earnings on Wednesd

Microsoft says users of its Azure cloud portal may be not be able to access Office 365, Minecraft or other services due to issues with its global content delivery network services.