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Azure says it’s rolling out technical fixes which will finish deploying within the hour and users of the Microsoft cloud will soon be seeing the effects
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced ongoing “network availability” issues on Azure, its popular cloud platform.
Alaska Airlines wrote on X the technical issues caused “disruption to key systems, including our websites.”
The issues are taking place within the Azure Front Door network, according to Microsoft.
The company is in the midst of rolling out a series of technical steps within the next hour that could begin resolving the issues.
Meanwhile, thousands of unofficial reports are pouring in Wednesday of issues with Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform that backs up numerous major companies and parts of the internet.
More than 6,000 crowd-sourced issue reports have been filed today with the monitoring site Downdetector.
Amazon says the marquee service is running without incident.
“AWS is operating normally,” an AWS spokesperson told The Independent. “The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”
The claims of an outage come barely a week after an AWS issue caused problems across major applications like Snapchat, Roblox, Fortnite, Duolingo and Canva.
Users of popular Microsoft apps may be feeling the impacts of the ongoing issues with the Azure cloud, the company announced.
“Microsoft 365 services are experiencing downstream impact related to the ongoing Azure outage,” it wrote on X.
Multiple airlines say the ongoing issues at Azure have impacted crucial operations.
“Due to a global outage impacting the Microsoft Azure platform where several Alaska and Hawaiian Airlines services are hosted, we are currently experiencing a disruption to key systems, including our websites,” Alaska wrote on X about an hour ago.
“Wtf is going on here?” customer Justin Abel wrote on X, along with pictures of a line at a check-in desk. “I’m going to miss my flight and your systems are unresponsive.”
Microsoft says its Azure services will soon be back to normal.
“We have initiated the deployment of our ‘last known good’ configuration,” the company just wrote on its Azure dashboard. “This is expected to be fully deployed in about 30 minutes from which point customers will start to see initial signs of recovery. Once this is completed, the next stage is to start to recover nodes while we route traffic through these healthy nodes.”
Despite a brief surge in consumer issue reports on Wednesday, AWS says there is not an outage on its cloud platform.
“AWS is operating normally,” an AWS spokesperson told The Independent. “The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”
Whenever there are issues with cloud service providers, their effects are soon felt across internet-connected apps and services throughout the economy.
According to unofficial crowd-sourced data on Downdetector, there has been a spike in reported issues today from users of the Xbox Network, Xfinity customers, Microsoft Teams users, and Starbucks rewards members.
While Amazon disputes reports of an AWS outage, Microsoft has publicly announced issues today on its Azure cloud platform.
“Starting at approximately 16:00 UTC, customers and Microsoft services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD) may have experienced issues resulting in latencies, timeouts and errors,” the company wrote on the Azure website. “We have confirmed that an inadvertent configuration change as the trigger event for this issue.”
There aren’t any ongoing issues with AWS, according to Amazon.
“AWS is operating normally,” the company said in a statement.
“The only resource on the internet that provides accurate data on the availability of our services is the AWS Health Dashboard.”
That dashboard does not show any outages at the moment.
Another Amazon Web Services outage has reportedly hit, impacting thousands.
We’ll be tracking whether today’s reported AWS issue has similar ripple effects to the one that hit last week.
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