Azure Outage: Microsoft says issue identified; engineers rolling back changes and rerouting traffic

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform is suffering a widespread outage that has affected several websites, services and apps including Microsoft 365, Xbox and NatWest. It has reportedly even halted voting at the Scottish Parliament. Microsoft says a DNS configuration change is to blame and is attempting a rollback while rerouting traffic to healthy infrastructure.

The disruption first registered as spikes in outage reports on Downdetector earlier today, and Microsoft’s Azure status page later confirmed problems with Azure Portal access.