Tech giant Microsoft announced on the evening of the 29th that the service disruption affecting its Azure cloud platform has been resolved. The incident had previously impacted Microsoft's entire suite of productivity software as well as multiple industries worldwide.
The Azure division stated: “While error rates and latency have returned to pre-incident levels, a small number of customers may still experience issues. We are continuing to mitigate these residual impacts.”
The Azure division added that this incident lasted for more than 8 hours.
Earlier on the 29th, Alaska Airlines said that due to the Azure outage, key systems—including the company website—were affected, but systems are now coming back online as Microsoft resolves the issue.
According to foreign media, London's Heathrow Airport website, which encountered problems earlier, has also returned to normal. Telecom carrier Vodafone was similarly impacted by this outage.
Services affected included Azure Communication Services and Media Services.
Prior to Microsoft's outage, Amazon Web Services suffered a failure last week, causing chaos for thousands of websites globally and disrupting some of the most popular apps such as Snapchat and Reddit.
Microsoft's productivity suite, Microsoft 365, also reported service disruptions due to Azure being down. Later that same day, they confirmed the impact—triggered by a configuration change in Azure—had been resolved.