Businesses and platforms using the cloud computing services reported widespread issues, from Microsoft 365 to Xbox to Alaska Airlines.

Microsoft confirmed the Azure outage stemmed from a misconfiguration in its Front Door routing system, causing global service disruption

Microsoft's Azure platform and other company services are experiencing an outage that started around 12:00 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday. The company reported that the outage was triggered by "an inadvertent configuration change" that impacted the Azure Front Door delivery network.

A Microsoft Azure outage disrupted Alaska Airlines’ systems days after a separate IT failure grounded flights and caused hundreds of cancellations.