Microsoft Azure outage disrupts Xbox Live, Alaska Airlines, NatWest Bank, Vodafone UK: Check latest status

While the world was focused on the widespread AWS outage – an issue that Amazon denied – Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Azure, experienced a massive, hours-long service outage too in the late hours of Wednesday, bringing down critical IT infrastructure of global companies and crippling several of the tech giant’s own services. The disruption, which Microsoft later attributed to an “inadvertent configuration change,” affected a major chunk of the internet, affecting everything from travel logistics and retail to online gaming.