If you can't log into Azure, Teams or Xbox Live right now: Microsoft cloud services in worldwide outage
(2021/04/02)
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/04/01/microsoft_azure_dns_outage/
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Unlucky netizens are right now unable to log into Microsoft's online services, including Azure, Teams, Dynamics, and Xbox Live, due to an ongoing global outage.
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The IT breakdown is blamed on a DNS issue, and started an hour and a half ago at time of writing. According to the Windows giant's [2]status page :
DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services - Recovery in progress
SUMMARY OF IMPACT: Starting at approximately 21:30 UTC on 01 Apr 2021, customers may experience intermittent issues accessing Microsoft services, including Azure, Dynamics, and Xbox Live.
CURRENT STATUS: Microsoft rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and are seeing improvement in service availability. We are continuing to investigate the cause of the DNS issue.
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The outage has hit Azure cloud's network infrastructure in North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, though Azure's government cloud and its services in China are unaffected.
As you might expect, there are spikes in online complaints of inaccessible service by folks using [4]Xbox Live , [5]Office 356 , and [6]Teams .
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We're told that as services recover, more information can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under MO248163. We'll give you more details as they come. ®
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[2] https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
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[4] https://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live/
[5] https://downdetector.com/status/office-365/
[6] https://downdetector.com/status/teams/
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[8] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
[1]
The IT breakdown is blamed on a DNS issue, and started an hour and a half ago at time of writing. According to the Windows giant's [2]status page :
DNS issue impacting multiple Microsoft services - Recovery in progress
SUMMARY OF IMPACT: Starting at approximately 21:30 UTC on 01 Apr 2021, customers may experience intermittent issues accessing Microsoft services, including Azure, Dynamics, and Xbox Live.
CURRENT STATUS: Microsoft rerouted traffic to our resilient DNS capabilities and are seeing improvement in service availability. We are continuing to investigate the cause of the DNS issue.
[3]
The outage has hit Azure cloud's network infrastructure in North and South America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa, though Azure's government cloud and its services in China are unaffected.
As you might expect, there are spikes in online complaints of inaccessible service by folks using [4]Xbox Live , [5]Office 356 , and [6]Teams .
[7]
We're told that as services recover, more information can be found in the Microsoft 365 admin center under MO248163. We'll give you more details as they come. ®
Get our [8]Tech Resources
[1] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/saas&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=2&c=2YGaW2H9i3rojIhxEoF-QxgAAABU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0
[2] https://status.azure.com/en-us/status
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[4] https://downdetector.com/status/xbox-live/
[5] https://downdetector.com/status/office-365/
[6] https://downdetector.com/status/teams/
[7] https://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/jump?co=1&iu=/6978/reg_offprem/saas&sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&tile=4&c=44YGaW2H9i3rojIhxEoF-QxgAAABU&t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0
[8] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/
25 years after...
chuckufarley
...I decided the I would never again willfully deploy a Microsoft branded DNS server this stuff is still happening. Good job Microsoft! You are still such so influential that systemd's resolved is following in your footsteps!
It's one thing to reinvent the wheel but it takes a special kind of idiot to reinvent the cube and call it a wheel.
Tell me again...
KLane
The advantages of Cloud Computing are?
Re: Tell me again...
Yet Another Anonymous coward
None of this new fangled Distributed Name Server stuff for me - I keep a list of sites I want to visit locally.
I update it once a year when my copy of the whole internet guide is delivered
Re: Tell me again...
stuartnz
Hands up if "don't google Google" came to mind after reading the above post. (apt, since many El Reg longtimers probably ARE The Elders of the Internet)
It's *always* DNS.