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An ongoing DNS outage is affecting Microsoft customers worldwide, preventing them from accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 services.
“Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, we began experiencing DNS issues resulting in availability degradation of some services. Customers may experience issues accessing the Azure Portal. We have taken action that is expected to address the portal access issues here shortly,” according to the Microsoft Azure status page.
On its service health status blog, it said that “users may be unable to access the Microsoft 365 admin center and see delays when accessing other Microsoft 365 services”, including Microsoft Entra, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Power Apps and Microsoft Intune functions, as well as issues with add-ins and network connectivity in Outlook.
The company says it is investigating the issues causing the disruption, and further notes that it has “halted the rollout of the impacting configuration change”, and is “continuing our efforts to route service traffic away from the affected infrastructure, where the change was already applied, to recover service availability as quickly as possible.”
But while it doesn’t appear that the outage will last long, reports suggest that the incident’s impact is widespread, affecting Microsoft customers worldwide, including the Dutch railway system, which is reportedly experiencing issues with its online travel planning platforms and ticket machines.
Last week, Amazon’s cloud service suffered a 15-hour outage which impacted 11 million users globally and took scores of websites and apps offline, showing just how fragile modern digital infrastructure really is.
This is a developing story…
