Microsoft outage: Hours after downtime, Microsoft 365 services ‘recovered’, claims tech giant

Hours after a global outage on Friday, Microsoft 365 services were “recovered” after “mitigation actions”, the tech giant claimed.

Earlier, a service outage had prevented Microsoft 365 users from accessing several apps and services worldwide. According to the company’s Service Health Status page, “a configuration change” in a part of their Azure backend workloads is causing “interruption between storage and compute resources”, leaving several Microsoft 365 apps unusable.

The outage also affected various services across the world including supermarkets, payment platforms, banking operations, stock market and flights.