Late in the morning Azure said that most customers should have seen services resume after a full recovery of Microsoft’s wide area network (WAN).
An Azure outage, which It has 15 million corporate clients and more than 500 million active users.according to data from Microsoft, can affect multiple services and create a ripple effect, since almost all the largest companies in the world use the platform.
Businesses are increasingly relying on online platforms after the pandemic caused an increase in the number of employees working from home.
Previously, Microsoft said that it had determined that a network connectivity issue with devices over the Microsoft WAN was occurring. This affects connectivity between clients on the Internet to Azure, as well as connectivity between services in data centers, he said.
Microsoft later tweeted that it had rolled back a network change it believed was causing the problem, and was using “additional infrastructure to speed up the recovery process.”
Microsoft did not disclose the number of users affected by the outage, but data from the outage tracking website Downdetector showed thousands of incidents on all continents.
The Downdetector site tracks outages by collecting status reports from various sources, including users.
Microsoft’s cloud business had helped shore up its fiscal second-quarter profit on Tuesday.
The company forecast third-quarter revenue in its so-called intelligent cloud business to be between $21.7 billion and $22 billion, despite concerns that the lucrative cloud segment for big tech companies could be hit hard by cutting customer costs.
