While the availability appears to have been restored, it was the latest in a series of outages affecting Microsoft cloud services this week. In what appears to be the third major Microsoft service ...

A disruption in Microsoft (MS) cloud "Azure" service on the 29th (local time) caused widespread chaos. According to Bloomberg and others, the MS cloud service outage that day disrupted Alaska Airlines ...

Microsoft announced this week that its Azure Portal solution has reached the "general availability" (GA) milestone. The GA status signifies that Microsoft considers the portal, which is used to manage ...

Microsoft says it has been enforcing multifactor authentication (MFA) for Azure Portal sign-ins across all tenants since March 2025. The company's Azure MFA enforcement efforts were announced in May ...

‘We identified a spike in network traffic,’ the company says in a post update. Microsoft said that a “spike in network traffic” has been identified as the likely cause of Friday’s outage that impacted ...

Microsoft revealed in an update to the Azure status page that the preliminary root cause behind an outage that impacted the Azure Portal worldwide on Friday was what it described as a traffic "spike." ...

Microsoft this week described some coming improvements to the Azure portal, which is a browser-accessible Web page used to carry out all sorts of management activities using Azure services. The ...

Microsoft’s Azure cloud service is recovering from an outage that affected key apps and services like Microsoft 365, Xbox and Minecraft. All three showed spikes in outage reports on DownDetector ...