Microsoft Azure experienced simultaneous outages, disrupting access to websites, apps, and cloud-connected services across industries on Wednesday afternoon. The dual failure triggered widespread connectivity issues for millions of users and reignited concerns about the internet’s dependence on a handful of cloud providers.

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. At around 3:20PM ET, the company said it had finished deploying its “last known good” configuration and says customers should soon start seeing signs of recovery, with “full mitigation” expected in the next four hours.

Microsoft's Azure and its suite of productivity software were down for thousands of users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365 , Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector around 12PM ET, and the Azure status page indicates that Microsoft first observed technical issues around 12PM ET.

Tens of thousands of users report disruptions for Microsoft Azure and 365, and even Xbox is affected. Here's what we know about the outage.

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

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.

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

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and his team are expected to discuss Copilot, Azure, AI, cloud, security and other topics on the Q1 earnings call Wednesday.