Microsoft Azure outage takes down services across North America
By Sergiu Gatlan, Bleeping Computer Microsoft has mitigated an Azure outage that lasted more than two hours and took down multiple services for customers across North and Latin America. The company says the incident started around 18:22 UTC and impacted services that leverage Azure Front Door (AFD), its modern cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN). "This issue is impacting multiple geographies, mostly in North America and Latin America," Redmond explained when it first acknowledged the outage on the Azure status page, saying it was caused by what it described as a "configuration change." "We have rolled back this change and, from 19:25 UTC, the majority of services are seeing recovery. Many Microsoft services have failed away from AFD, in response to this issue." However, customers have also reported experiencing errors connecting to Azure services (including Azure DevOps) in the United Kingdom, with the Azure DevOps status page also tagging the issues